I've been caught twice over the summer with bits of malware that resulted in me having intrusive advertising pop ups in both IE and Firefox. The worst of these was called "savinogtoyoiu"; I'm assuming I got it from a free download somewhere, although I've no idea where.
This thing was quite hard to get rid of; in Firefox I had to restore Firefox to it's default settings to wipe it out. In IE I went to "manage addons" to disable it but that did not work as this 'disable' option did not show. In the end I went to my c: drive, chose the program files directory, found the directory with the "savinogtoyoiu" addon and deleted it. I then also went to the program information directory and deleted that.
So I've got rid of the thing from Firefox and IE. However, when I go to the "manage addons" directory in IE, even though I've deleted the program files for this addon the addon still shows as 'enabled' in the list of addons (see picture) and 'disable' still isn't an option. I'm running windows 8. Anyone know where I go to to disable and get rid of all trace of this thing from my PC?
This thing was quite hard to get rid of; in Firefox I had to restore Firefox to it's default settings to wipe it out. In IE I went to "manage addons" to disable it but that did not work as this 'disable' option did not show. In the end I went to my c: drive, chose the program files directory, found the directory with the "savinogtoyoiu" addon and deleted it. I then also went to the program information directory and deleted that.
So I've got rid of the thing from Firefox and IE. However, when I go to the "manage addons" directory in IE, even though I've deleted the program files for this addon the addon still shows as 'enabled' in the list of addons (see picture) and 'disable' still isn't an option. I'm running windows 8. Anyone know where I go to to disable and get rid of all trace of this thing from my PC?
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