DNS Unlocker Virus

[Affelaffe03]

HelloI have a virus. It is called DNS Unlocker and it's tough. I have tried with microsofts own virus protection program and the Norton Power eraser. Nothing worked. I have gone into safe mode and looked into all the computers files. But nothing. It is gone in uninstall program thing but IT IS STILL ON THE PC!!! I have followed this tutorial but no luck:

http://howtoremove.guide/dns-unlocker-version-1-4-removal-uninstall/

Please help.

 

[Th3-Hunter333]

Install the free version of malewarebytes and give that a thorough scan
https://www.malwarebytes.org/

 

[Th3Fang]

Run Malwarebytes in Safe-Mode and do a Custom Scan for your C: drive. I ran into this virus 2 weeks ago and I successfully got rid of it today using that method.

 

[Affelaffe03]

Wow! Thank you! it was really effective.

 

[Th3Fang]

One more piece of advice. DNS Unlocker adds a Task on Task Scheduler to use Windows Powershell to direct its victims to other sites. See malwarebyte's forum to remove the tasks.

P.S. Mine was set to "At 4:38PM every day - After triggered, repeat every 08:00:00 for a duration of 1 day." - This was directly linked to Powershell.

https://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?/topic/179336-removal-instructions-for-dns-unlocker-14/
https://blog.malwarebytes.org/intelligence/2015/03/scheduled-tasks/