- Jun 21, 2014
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Hello, I'll be honest with my story, I've been using a program (StartIsBack++) which increased size of icons in my taskbar since in W10 they were so tiny, but it had a trial which apparently ran out so I went out searching for a key so I wouldn't have such issues. But the damn keygens ( which appeared at the 1st page of search window in google) were not keygens but a cluster of malware, during installation I tried so called custom installation (even though express installation was selected by default) but it didn't allowed me, as I clicked the custom installation checkbox it auto-began installing me shitload of malware such as Opera, Crossbrowse, shitload of toolbars, but most annoying, hijacked by firefox and chrome browsers. I've tried everything, tried system restore, tried checking for viruses with avast, none found, tried Malwarebytes, some things were found which I removed but the core issue persisted, I did uninstalled all that snapgo/opera/crossbrowse stuff but my browsers remain locked out for me. I did tried to uninstall and reinstall both browsers , change their homepage settings and what happens on new tab but the problem persists.
On Chrome there's no malware-style homepage and new tab pages, however access to most sites has been blocked, I checked if there's any addons uninstalled em and everything there's no toolbars nothing left but still here's what happens when I try to open for example tomshardware.co.uk though chrome:
Even worse case scenario for my favourite browser, firefox,even though ive did everything to remove this snapgo sneaky malware it's still here and more active than ever, even though that my homepage and default new tab pages are set to default Mozilla pages it still opens snapgo, even though my default search engine is google it forcibly uses snapgo, and access to almost all sites is blocked too, just like in chrome:
So my question.. what else can I do, is the only way for me is hard drive wipe and clean w10 install? By the way if you wonder how I've managed to access tomshardware, I'm doing it through Edge browser, apparently its the only one which was not affected by the onslaught of malware,probably because it simply does not support many stuff yet.I'd wish to completely get rid of snapgo and block that site permanently including whoever developed it, also id like to know is it possible that those guys secretly stole my personal data, logins of sites, banking and credit card data?
On Chrome there's no malware-style homepage and new tab pages, however access to most sites has been blocked, I checked if there's any addons uninstalled em and everything there's no toolbars nothing left but still here's what happens when I try to open for example tomshardware.co.uk though chrome:
Even worse case scenario for my favourite browser, firefox,even though ive did everything to remove this snapgo sneaky malware it's still here and more active than ever, even though that my homepage and default new tab pages are set to default Mozilla pages it still opens snapgo, even though my default search engine is google it forcibly uses snapgo, and access to almost all sites is blocked too, just like in chrome:
So my question.. what else can I do, is the only way for me is hard drive wipe and clean w10 install? By the way if you wonder how I've managed to access tomshardware, I'm doing it through Edge browser, apparently its the only one which was not affected by the onslaught of malware,probably because it simply does not support many stuff yet.I'd wish to completely get rid of snapgo and block that site permanently including whoever developed it, also id like to know is it possible that those guys secretly stole my personal data, logins of sites, banking and credit card data?
/windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/windows-10-recovery-options
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