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=Chef-Kawasaki Dec 29, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Okay so I got a new computer (windows)

and everyone says that they're getting this one little virus called browse to save. I have it, and it's just annoying. >__<

Well, whenever you go to a shopping site like ebay, or if you mouse over underlined comment text on deviantart, it links you to the site. (it doesn't do it on [link] text, so thats good.) Sometimes it appears on youtube.

No matter how many anti virus things you use, it will never show up. It's not in the extensions of google chrome, and you can't find it in the unistall a program bar.

I've looked at several websites, but nothing helps.

I also tried to unistall it form the website, but it won't let you.

Anyone else have this problem? (I'm using windows 7 btw)

Also, on the bright side, flash works like a dream~

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~DTrinidad Jan 1, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

To prevent more threats in the future, I recommend using Firefox with the add-ons AdBlock and NoScript. Last but not least, practice safe browsing!

~RoyMinnett Dec 31, 2012

Are you using google chrome? Is it an extension? Coz I've never heard of it, so not sure whether it is a virus/malware or not.

Anyways if it is some kind of virus/malware, you can try out malwarebytes antimalware. It is an excellent anti malware software.

You can get it from download dot com.

[link]

~snoowie9 Dec 31, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

did you look under search agents, sometimes it occurs to be a search agent

~delusionalHamster Dec 30, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Get rid of windows. Problem solved.

=Chef-Kawasaki Dec 30, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

~delusionalHamster Dec 30, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Well if you were using linux you wouldn't get viruses. Linux doesn't get viruses. So there's that.

All I can say is, the only way to be sure to cure your windows installation is to format and reinstall it. Otherwise there's no way to be sure that there isn't some stuff still hiding there somewhere. Just backup whatever data you have on an external drive (don't use the infected OS for this, otherwise the virus may just spread on the external drive) and wipe out your windows partition, then re-install it.

=Chef-Kawasaki Dec 30, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

This computer came with linux.

On the start up I can choose which OS I wanna use

Also, I got rid of the virus. :>

~TheWalkingGhost Dec 31, 2012 Student Digital Artist

For once, I agree with ~delusionalHamster.

For the sake of 3 hours, format, re-install. It'll save you a lot of potential headache.

What exactly is the link? or any keywords if DA doesn't allow you to post it...

=Chef-Kawasaki Dec 31, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

But I got rid of the virus. -v-

What link? The link to my computer? My computer was custom made by my stepfather. o3o

~delusionalHamster Dec 30, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Maybe you did... but you can never be sure. A format + reinstall is the only 100% sure way to cure a malware infection on windows. Remember, you can't trust AV software. They only find things they know how to find, and report more false positives than real ones.

Of course, you might be satisfied with being less than 100% sure, that's ok if you don't do anything really important where security matters a lot on your computer.

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