Malicious programs downloaded

This might be slightly long, but bear with me; this is interesting.

So, last night I allowed my idiot tenant to show me a website called 1channel. It has free movies to downstream. Anyway, I wasn't watching closely what he was doing, but he did something wrong.

Somehow, in the span of a minute, he downloaded a several programs. I think they were called: Optimizer Pro, My PCBackup, Whitesmoke toolbar, and Search.conduit webpage/search engine.

I looked at the history of IE (which he used) and within that span of a minute or two he apparently accessed eighteen different websites--which is impossible. He really only went to 1channel.

Anyway, I tried to delete these programs. I eventually deleted everything, but it was very difficult: the programs simply wouldn't uninstall.

Search.conduit and whitesmoke toolbar took over both IE and Chrome, even though my tenant used IE, and IE was the default browser.
Search.conduit displaced the homepage without permission. Search.conduit was especially difficult to remove. Even after uninstalling it, it remained present.
Eventually, however, I did eliminate it.

So my questions are briefly:

What exactly happened? How could IE's history say that 18 different webpages were accessed in a span of a minute, when he only went to one webpage, namely 1channel.ch?
Is 1channel.ch a safe website to visit?

What is search.conduit? Why did it displace my homepages in both Chrome and IE without permission?

Is whitesmoke toolbar safe? How was it suddenly downloaded?

What about Optimizer Pro? and My PCBackup?

While Optimizer Pro was downloading, I couldn't even stop the download--it wouldn't let me. I even tried forcing a stop-download through task manager, and it wouldn't allow me to. I had to shut down my computer to halt it.

Important:

Even though I seem to have fixed everything, is it possible that there could be some malicious program or anything else residing on my computer? I ran an AV scan and nothing was found, but could there be anything else malicious. I'm a little worried because I don't want hackers getting into my computer.

 

Did you run a full scan with Malwarebytes in safe mode ?? Also, maybe you should go ask your questions in the Malware Forum and get their expert answers.

 

Thanks Nick T.

No, I did not run a full scan with Malwarebytes in safe mode. I don't know what Malwarebytes is. I'll post my question in the Malware Forum; thanks for redirecting me.

 

I see you already posted in the malware forum, but they will need results of a specific set of scans to diagnose your problem and offer you a solution.

Please follow ALL instructions here and post the results of the scans to your already opened thread, please don't start a new one. Good luck

 

Hi dyamond, thanks for responding.

You provided a dead link. Could I be directed to the place you intended to link to? Thanks.

And if anybody has info about the websites and programs I mentioned in my opening post, or any advice, could you please share? Thanks.

 

Beseech...

This is the read and run material for posting in the malware board:

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=35407

Then post on the malware board here:

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=35

 

A quick search found this on the 1Channel.ch Facebook page

On the LetMeWatchThis website there is the same message.

So it looks like 1Channel now offers malware with the movies, I prefer popcorn
Good luck with getting cleaned up

 

Sorry, not sure how that happened. I tested it before I posted. My brain has been jiggly lately lol

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=35407