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- Location
- Loulé, Algarve
I got a brand new laptop yesterday, spent the entire night transfering all files, installing all apps/updates and unninstalling bloatware (unninstalled McAfee that came with the laptop and installed Bitdefender).
In the middle of all this, I went to open Chrome and suddently I noticed my Google page looked something like this (not a PrtScreen):
And whenever I search something, the results look nothing like they normally look.
Obviously Google doesn't look like this, so obviously I must've got some infection somehow. So I installed Bitdefender and MalwareBytes, and combined they found like 4 or 5 issues that were easily fixed (can't remember the names exactly, but I know one of the infections was a "INetCookie" or something like that in my AppData folder). After that it still shows google like that...
It can't be the USB drives I used to transfer files and apps, because I used Bitdefender on another computer to scan for viruses and found nothing. I also tried clearing cache, history and cookies...nothing. Formatting OS is not an option, this happened while I was preparing everything to make the backup like I wanted it to be...which was probably my biggest mistake, now that I think about it
I'm at a loss here, could somebody please help me?
Thank you for your time.
In the middle of all this, I went to open Chrome and suddently I noticed my Google page looked something like this (not a PrtScreen):
And whenever I search something, the results look nothing like they normally look.
Obviously Google doesn't look like this, so obviously I must've got some infection somehow. So I installed Bitdefender and MalwareBytes, and combined they found like 4 or 5 issues that were easily fixed (can't remember the names exactly, but I know one of the infections was a "INetCookie" or something like that in my AppData folder). After that it still shows google like that...
It can't be the USB drives I used to transfer files and apps, because I used Bitdefender on another computer to scan for viruses and found nothing. I also tried clearing cache, history and cookies...nothing. Formatting OS is not an option, this happened while I was preparing everything to make the backup like I wanted it to be...which was probably my biggest mistake, now that I think about it
I'm at a loss here, could somebody please help me?
Thank you for your time.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 7 Home Premium x64
- System Manufacturer/Model
- ASUS N53Jq-SX145V
- CPU
- Intel Core i7 740QM, 1.73GHz
- Memory
- 8GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- Nvidia GeForce GT 425M VRAM 1GB