Bb7304 :
Ok lol...i kinda wondered. I ran a couple free scans one through Reimage and one through Plumbytes and they are both saying I have malware though. So do you have a recommendation of what I should do?
Malwarebytes.
The unwanted popup is the issue, not a 'backdoor trojan', or 'network virus'.
Consider this scenario:
I have a WiFi blocker device.
I walk around your neighborhood with it on. Official looking shirt with nametag.
Knock on your door.
"Sir, there have been a LOT of reports of wifi outages in your area. Are you currently experiencing any problems?"
'YES!!! My WiFi just stopped working'
"No problem. $175, and we can fix you right up"
'Yes please! I have to finish this presentation for tomorrow morning'
You pay me.
I come in, sit at your PC. You log me in.
I bring up the Event Viewer, with a LOT of scary looking lines in the log.
Thousands of them.
"See? Here is the problem sir. Just let me log on to our corporate server, and run a scan from our secured server"
(here, I run a script that grabs all your username/passwords, search history, racy pics of your spouse...)
(reach into my pocket, and turn my jammer off)
"All fixed. Now, for an additional $60/month, we can give you "
WiFi insurance", so that this will never happen again. Guaranteed."
It works exactly like this, but instead of 'your neighborhood', they just log in remotely.