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Infection Removal Needed [Solved]

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🖼Click to load external image (a6csRll.png)Malwarebytes Anti-Rootkit Beta
  • Download Malwarebytes Anti-Rootkit Beta and extract it to your desktop (MBAR will be launched shortly after the extraction);
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  • Click on Next, and then on the Update button to let it update its database. Once the database has been successfully updated, click on Next;
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  • Make sure all the checkboxes are checked, then click on the Scan button, and let it completes its scan (this can take a while);
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  • Once the scan is done, make sure that every item is checked, and click on the Cleanup button (a reboot might be required);
  • After that (and the reboot, if one was required), go back in the mbar folder and look for a text file called mbar-log-TODAY'S-DATE.txt;
  • Copy/paste the content of that log in your next reply;

Hey, Firefox seems to be working now. It didn't load at first, then I opened Task Manager and selected End Process Tree to stop Firefox. Suddenly, the Firefox browser opened. I closed Firefox and then clicked on the Firefox desktop icon to see if it's open the browser, and it did. So I think we're all good now.

 

Except for that link being redirected to viglink. :)

The scan finished but I can't find the log in the folder. It just says: Congratulations, no cleanup is required! Scan Finished: No Malware Found!

If it says nothing found don't worry about a log.
viglink isn't malicious, they say but from what I'm reading just a nightmare to get rid of.
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Let's try to update Firefox to the latest version

click on the 3 horizontal bars at the top right corner
at the very bottom look for and click on the blue question mark
Then click on About Firefox
this will tell us if it's the most current.
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Open your extensions/addons list and look through there to see if you can find any reference from this

see if something was installed about the same time as you started seeing the viglink.com status bar messages

We can try to do a search but I'm doubtful we'll find anything related to this.

Let's give it a go

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Please download SystemLook from one of the links below and save it to your Desktop.
Download Mirror #1
Download Mirror #2
  • Double-click SystemLook.exe to run it.
  • Copy the content of the following quote box into the main textfield:

    :folderfind
    viglink
    :filefind
    viglink
    :regfind
    viglink

  • Click the Look button to start the scan.
  • When finished, a notepad window will open with the results of the scan. Please post this log in your next reply.
Note: The log can also be found on your Desktop entitled SystemLook.txt

Firefox is up to date.

 

And here's the result from SystemLook:

 

SystemLook 30.07.11 by jpshortstuff
Log created at 00:18 on 15/05/2017 by Adadu
Administrator - Elevation successful
 
========== folderfind ==========
 
Searching for "viglink"
No folders found.
 
========== filefind ==========
 
Searching for "viglink"
No files found.
 
========== regfind ==========
 
Searching for "viglink"
No data found.
 
-= EOF =-
Take advantage of and consider

Delete cookies to remove the information websites have stored on your computer
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/disable-third-party-cookies
Block 3rd party cookies

How to Automatically Clear Private Data When You Close Your Browser
https://www.howtogeek.com/137681/how-to-automatically-clear-private-data-when-you-close-your-browser/

let me know how how the computer is now.

So sorry for the late reply. Anyway, I haven't gotten around the adblockplus part yet for the viglink stuff. I'm thinking of doing it over the weekend. As for my Firefox browser uninstalling Avast from my laptop did the trick. Because the first time that I said Firefox browser was okay, it turns out it wasn't okay. After I restarted my laptop and Avast was enabled again, my Firefox browser didn't load. So I decide to uninstall it. 

 

As for the take advantage and consider stuff, yes, I will do that too over the weekend. Really appreciate your help. Have a great day! ^_^

Just an update, ABP didn't work for either Chrome or Firefox. My browser is still being redirected to viglink whenever I click on the link you provided (https://support.appl…/en-us/HT201262). I think viglink is embedded in the link itself, is that possible? It's just I guess. I really have no idea. It's just that when I copied the link for ABP (https://adblockplus….getting_started) the viglink link showed up in the address showed up but it didn't load. It continued loading ABP instead. 

Darn it. I think it attached itself to all the links you provide (freaking out a bit, but still feeling fine). I clicked on one of the links (https://support.mozi…websites-stored) you provided under the "take advantage of and consider stuff" and the viglink link showed up in the address bar. However, the link didn't load and I got the message: 

Service Unavailable

The service is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later.

 

 

Here is the link that showed up in the address bar:

 

https://redirect.viglink.com/?format=go&jsonp=vglnk_149534853538025&key=bf4adfcbb328b51c165afd7f95bfc060&libId=j2yc0y21010000j1000DLbpv7vl5w&loc=https%3A%2F%2Fforums.whatthetech.com%2Findex.php%3Fshowtopic%3D131180%26page%3D2&v=1&out=https%3A%2F%2Fsupport.mozilla.org%2Fen-US%2Fkb%2Fdelete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored&ref=https%3A%2F%2Fforums.whatthetech.com%2Findex.php%3Fshowtopic%3D131180&title=Infection%20Removal%20Needed%20-%20Page%202%20-%20Virus%2C%20Spyware%20%26%20Malware%20Removal&txt=https%3A%2F%2Fsupport.mozi…websites-stored

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