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Christopher Nelson Wallcovering and Painting

10 years ago

installed win 10 and was doing some clean up when a cc cleaner update popped up, like a fool I clicked on it and it started downloading all kinds of crap. Until I caught it and ran malware bytes, it had already infected my machine and now I cannot get win defender to turn on. Is there a way to do this?

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aputernut
10 years ago
Click on windows icon on far left of taskbar, type in search bar defender or windows defender both work, then click on windows defender settings and go from there.
emma
10 years ago
I have never had a virus until I started prepping for W10. When I start downloading my software, I got something that locked up my toolbar, safesearch I think and wajam. I did a system restore, then a friend told me it was still in restore and told me how to get rid of it there. Later I picked up a virus with no name, it just had gen in the name with other stuff. It froze my Avast and my PC. I waited a few minutes and I was able to use IE. Downloaded Adware cleaner and that took care of the second one.
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Christopher Nelson Wallcovering and Painting
Original Author
10 years ago
Never mind, I ditched win 10 and went back to 8.1, all is well.
Richard (Vero Beach, Florida)
10 years ago
I right-clicked my Recycle Bin, opened CCleaner and upgraded to the new version. The only thing it tried pushing off on me was Google Chrome, but it was easy enough to deselect.

Just reporting how it went for me. I have no idea why that happened to you.

Did the pop-up happen to look anything like this?

Image source: http://malwaretips.com/threads/fake-update-notices-now-using-the-ccleaner-brand.46899/
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Christopher Nelson Wallcovering and Painting
Original Author
10 years ago
I don't think it was that, that would have scared me!
jane__ny
10 years ago
Since when is CCleaner a virus? I've been using it for years on all our computers.

Jane
Richard (Vero Beach, Florida)
10 years ago
Right, CCleaner is not a virus. The pop-up I posted above is fake. It uses CCleaner's good reputation to trick a user into doing an upgrade that is not really an CCleaner update. It installs malware.

What actually happened in Christopher, I don't know, the fake installer pop-up was just my guess.
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Christopher Nelson Wallcovering and Painting
Original Author
10 years ago
I am sure it was a pop up that I just didn't catch. It just was not THAT one. It seems to happen a lot with CCleaner, so beware.

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