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Ambucias
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Apr 30, 2017 at 05:09 PM
Hello
adwcleaner was not the only tool to remove initialpage123 which is a simple browser hijacker with a rogue trojan horse. You needed a combination of tools and steps.
The perfect method is described here:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-initialpage123.com-home-page-hijacker
Did you use rkill ?
adwcleaner is totally safe and it will not remove anything that would make your computer restart.
Ambucias
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adwcleaner was not the only tool to remove initialpage123 which is a simple browser hijacker with a rogue trojan horse. You needed a combination of tools and steps.
The perfect method is described here:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-initialpage123.com-home-page-hijacker
Did you use rkill ?
adwcleaner is totally safe and it will not remove anything that would make your computer restart.
Ambucias
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Updated on May 11, 2017 at 01:49 PM
Hi,
This might be happening because Windows 10 Os already comes with an inbuilt Windows Defender, an inbuilt antivirus software provided with your installation of Windows by Microsoft to give basic protection to your PC.
As you told you already have ADWCleaner. It is bad idea to use multiple antivirus software. This is said by the official Kaspersky blog here https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/multiple-antivirus-programs-bad-idea/2670/
So you should disable Windows Defender if you are using ADWCleaner.
You can take help from this link to disable Windows Defender.
https://howali.com/disable-turn-off-windows-defender/
Once you are done with this let me know if you are still facing issues of computer restart.
Thanks & Regards,
MJ Haider
This might be happening because Windows 10 Os already comes with an inbuilt Windows Defender, an inbuilt antivirus software provided with your installation of Windows by Microsoft to give basic protection to your PC.
As you told you already have ADWCleaner. It is bad idea to use multiple antivirus software. This is said by the official Kaspersky blog here https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/multiple-antivirus-programs-bad-idea/2670/
So you should disable Windows Defender if you are using ADWCleaner.
You can take help from this link to disable Windows Defender.
https://howali.com/disable-turn-off-windows-defender/
Once you are done with this let me know if you are still facing issues of computer restart.
Thanks & Regards,
MJ Haider
Ambucias
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May 11, 2017 at 04:26 PM
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For your information adwcleaner is not an antivirus, it has not search engine, it's just a tool.
For your information adwcleaner is not an antivirus, it has not search engine, it's just a tool.
mjhaider78
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May 11, 2017 at 11:58 PM
I am sorry, I thought Adwcleaner is an antimalware tool. Adwcleaner is an adware. Thanks for clearing this out to me.
Updated on May 1, 2017 at 10:47 AM
I ran probably over 10+ different AV softwares(Malwarebytes, rkill, Zemana, Hitman.Pro, Windows Defender ect) neither of them removed "initialpage123" completely, i ran them in the right order, but it kept coming back. I then ran SpyHunter, it found "initalpage123", but i needed premium for 30$. So i decided i'll do it the manual way. I cleaned all my browsers, which didn't work, and decided i'll just search "initialpage123" in my windows search bar, it found some "prefabs" scripts, i opened them with monodevelop, pressed "shift + f" wrote "initialpage123" and i found out the script was hijacked, because the "default search engine" script line set "initialpage123" as it's standard, so i deleted all traces of "initialpage123", and that fixed mozilla. I did the same for the "prefabs" script for IE. But Chrome still had it coming back. So i deleted all my Chrome files, and reinstalled Chrome, and voila.
Everything is how it should now :)