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The protection is active on every folder of the pc. Important: items are permanently deleted. They are not moved to quarantine. If you have any questions or concerns please ask before running this fix. The system will be rebooted after the fix has run. Thank you Kevin, I'll do this asap, now I have online school so it won't be before lunch.

I don't have to worry about my downloads, right? Because if there is a chance they get deleted and you give me the ok that they aren't infected I'll copy them to an external hard drive before I do this operation to ensure their safety. Microsoft Safety Scanner v1. Results Summary: No infection found. It seems that the files stopped showing up but I don't know for sure , but if possible I'd like to know what caused them to appear in the first place, so I can avoid it happening again.

In the worse case scenario that the files show up again, can I follow the same steps t get rid of them?

Thank you so much. Your system was infected with adware, probably came in without your knowledge maybe pickybacked to something you download Is removed with FRST fix.. Hello Kevin, thanks for the information, so the malicious part was the hostappserviceupdater.

For now there are no signs of a new virus, I'll let you know tomorrow. Thank you. Yes you are correct regarding adware, I doubt you will ever know where it came from, thats how they work If no issues remain or return continue to clean up:.

Hello Kevin, thank you for all of the additional information, if nothing shows up tomorrow I'll start the cleaning procedure. I just installed the malwarebytes browser guard, thank you for giving me this thing, I fell a little more safe with this. See you tomorrow, and thank you. Yes please return and let me know the outcome Hello Kevin, so I have some questions and a bad news, first: today I went to check in the temp folders where the problem originated and found some xls files inside tmp folders one each , is this normal?

Also, and this is the bad news, I went on the appdata folder of general and found that the service is still there, with the unistaller and everything, on the digital signature and also get the pokki signature. How do I remove it?

Thank you for any additional replies. See if you can delete Host App Sevice folder, that was not seen in the frst scans. Hello Kevin, I did it and all seems fine, let's see if it comes back somehow or if I can find other copies in the pc. The two files I mentioned earlier are dangerous or part of the pc? Thanks for the update, let me know if you are happy to close or if you require further assistance Hello Kevin, for me it can be closed, if nothing happens I'll follow the clean up procedure you posted yesterday and hope that I never see it again, thank you for all your help, I'll definitely come here if something else happens to my pc.

Goodbye for now, and thank you again. Hello, I'm looking into an unusual issue I haven't seen before. This issue doesn't happen with any other browser other than Edge This was in version 88 but even after upgrading to 89 there was no change and is currently on Windows 10 Enterprise I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit.

Frank-SE Microsoft Agent. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. Does it happen only when you download. Do you have any extension enabled in Edge? Are you aware of any changes on the PC prior to this issue? We await your response. Aditya Roy Microsoft Community — Moderator.

In reply to Frank-SE's post on March 25, Good Morning and thanks for the response. There are no extensions installed Yes, that is where it shows the version info. I have tried resetting etc and like above complete removal and install. This laptop is connected to our domain In conversation this morning it was discovered that Edge has never worked properly for him since we imaged his laptop in February, this image was widely used with only this user having issues but we also mainly use Chrome.

In reply to Dangerawse's post on March 25, In reply to Hal. CFSB's post on June 4, Kind regards, JamesA. Most files downloaded using edge, displayed as temp. Be it pdf, jpg or mp3. I do not see these issues using IE or Chrome. Await your advise with thanx. Malwarebytes Labs — Blog. Business Resources. See Content.

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