Removing portaldosites virus

Napkin

I accidentally downloaded Portaldosites and after that i tried to remove it, but it will not go away and when I open my browser it is still there. Can someone help?

About7Narwhal

Tried to remove it how? It is still there in what way?

f0rgiv3n

Let me google that for you

YFZblu

Why not nuke and pave? You have a legit malware hit on your hands. Who knows what additional malware was downloaded that you don't even know about.

hoktauri

I find a mix of Avast, Spybot, HijackThis & MalwareBytes will kill just about any infection. Only had to do a nuke from orbit once in the last year after most Windows system files had been horribly corrupted in the infection process.

Edit: There's also a time aspect, nuke and reinstall may be better if you have good backups and won't lose much. I've spent 5-10 hours killing hordes of viruses instead of just blowing things away because the client didn't keep backups, I got paid for it but it would of been faster the other way.

Napkin

To the first question: About7Narwhal, I tried to delete it from Control Panel but there wasn't any file and I also searched through some files and folders, but still no luck.

It was suggested to me to download Malwarebytes, so I did and then ran a scan.
I also searched in google and found some other forums in which people having the same problem redirected me here http://www.americanp.../portaldosites/
I followed the steps shown ther for manual removal, and I deleted what was left in the add ons and extensions menu.
After that I did another scan with an antivirus program (I now have Avast ) and it seems to be clean now.
Others told me to do a system restore, but for now I think I don't need to.
Thanks to all for helping!