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Removing portaldosites virus
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?
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f0rgiv3n
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YFZblu
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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. -
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hoktauri
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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. -
OptionsNapkin
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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!
