firefox and ie acting funny

Discussion in 'Malware Help - MG (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by vingle, Oct 2, 2011.

  1. vingle

    vingle Private E-2

    Firefox is now coming up with the notice that is not the default browser. so I select make it and it is there again at the next start.

    next i could not type anything with out google search showing up.

    a couple of times i had ie running with blinkx.com when the machine was idle. I had not selected ie. I don't really use ie.

    So I did the Malware procedure but still have the error of firefox is not the default browser...

    here are the txt files you requested.

    thanks,
    vingle
     

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  2. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Welcome to Major Geeks!
    May not be due to malware. Your logs are all clean. You could just be having a problem with Firefox or you could have a problem with Windows that may be blocking/locking some registry changes. Do you have any other problems with changes that you make on your PC configuration sticking?


    Let's run a couple more scans just to be safe.

    • Goto the below link and follow the instructions for running TDSSKiller from Kaspersky
    • Be sure to attach your log from TDSSKiller

    Now please also download MBRCheck to your desktop.

    See the download links under this icon http://forums.majorgeeks.com/chaslang/images/MGDownloadLoc.gif
    • Double click MBRCheck.exe to run (vista and Win 7 right click and select Run as Administrator)
    • It will show a Black screen with some information that will contain either the below line if no problem is found:
      • Done! Press ENTER to exit...
    • Or you will see more information like below if a problem is found:
      • Found non-standard or infected MBR.
      • Enter 'Y' and hit ENTER for more options, or 'N' to exit:
    • Either way, just choose to exit the program at this point since we want to see only the scan results to begin with.
    • MBRCheck will create a log named similar to MBRCheck_07.16.10_00.32.33.txt which is random based on date and time.
    • Attach this log to your next message. (See: HOW TO: Attach Items To Your Post )
     

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