Shine 144 Report post Posted May 12, 2014 Hello, I am having alot of problems with ads and browserhijackers. I know for a fact that alot of people use adblockers and similar programs, but I dont know which ones to download. I tried googling it but most of the programs I find either work barely or not at all. the things that bother me most are green double underlined text that appear EVERYWHERE on mozilla firefox, the upper-right corner ads on webpages that look like turning a page of a book and search.conduit.com which has been replaces as my homepage. any tips would be very welcome. Shine Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Damien 1,514 Report post Posted May 12, 2014 If your homepage has been replaced, I think you may be looking at something more than just issues with ads. If I were you, I'd just go to https://www.malwarebytes.org, get their free version, and run it on my computer. As for ad blockers, well adblock plus is supposed to be the best one around. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hybrys 199 Report post Posted May 12, 2014 Hello, I am having alot of problems with ads and browserhijackers. I know for a fact that alot of people use adblockers and similar programs, but I dont know which ones to download. I tried googling it but most of the programs I find either work barely or not at all. the things that bother me most are green double underlined text that appear EVERYWHERE on mozilla firefox, the upper-right corner ads on webpages that look like turning a page of a book and search.conduit.com which has been replaces as my homepage. any tips would be very welcome. Shine I had the same search.conduit.com malware on my HTPC, and it did include precursors to Trojan viruses. I'd definitely follow Damien's recommendation of downloading Malwarebytes, running a full scan on that, and making sure those files get removed. Once that's done, I like using AdBlockPlus (Which has versions for both Firefox and Chrome), especially because I can very easily whitelist sites such as MMO-Champ and Icy-Veins. It's a browser addon, not a specific program, though. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Storm 426 Report post Posted May 12, 2014 Spybot Search & Destroy ( http://www.safer-networking.org/ ) is a good one too. Often if a computer has a problem I'll scan it with both malwarebytes and spybot. One of them will fix the problem most of the time. Also, if you aren't using anti-virus, Microsoft Security Essentials is free, and a fairly decent virus scan as long as you're running a legit version of windows. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
