bigjohn Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 G'day guys and Happy New Year, Windows 10 - 64 Ver 1903 I installed Isoburn and image burn from Mayor Geeks. It installed unwanted without warning Avira and McAfee staff. I uninstalled with Revo in safe mode as Revo did not delete leftovers in normal mode. Then I noticed my browsers as well as Skype were disabled, I did a system restore and it also was corrupted. I uninstalled and reinstalled Skype and the browsers. All was good. I tried to go to msconfig and as soon as typed “m” these commands were in the dropdown list (please see attachment). I have never used them nor do I know what they do. Please tell me if it is a sign of something sinister going on in my system. I run Eset Smart Security 8 which updates about every couple of hours or so. I can always install a backup image, but I’m worried about those commands that I never used myself. Please open attachment. Thank you for any answers. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigjohn Posted January 23, 2021 Author Share Posted January 23, 2021 Am I in the wrong place? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkyy Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 bigjohn, I can't throw any light on the solution to your problem, but recently I too noticed strange behaviour on MajorGeeks. The first thing I noticed was that sometimes when I clicked to download a program on MajorGeeks the download window offered a totally different problem e.g:- I clicked to download "All MajorGeeks Tweaks" and I got offered "Optimizer". This strange behaviour occurred over various days. In the last few days a new problem has emerged. When I clicked on a program in the daily list, the download links appeared but immediately the whole page changed to MajorGeeks Deals selling Malwarebytes and I couldn't get past that no matter how many times I re-tried. Each day it gets worse...now it offers iDRIVE and when I click to go back a page it refuses to change. So I have to rapid click 5 or 6 times to get back to the main page of MajorGeeks. I tried deleting cookies etc as advised by one of the guys on Nsane, but today MajorGeeks is still behaving badly. I can only guess that the site has been compromised....but I don't understand why the site owners haven't realized yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigjohn Posted January 24, 2021 Author Share Posted January 24, 2021 fankii, Thank you for your answer, I have experienced the same situation as you described on MayorGeeks. I'll give it a miss from now on. On another topic google has block Elchupacabra site and I can access it with opera browser, but. Can I ask you about your avatar, the Chilean flag, I was born in Santiago 79 years ago and lived Down Under for more than 45 years. often I have to think in English to spick Spanish. Thanks again Regards John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkyy Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 18 hours ago, bigjohn said: fankii, Thank you for your answer, I have experienced the same situation as you described on MayorGeeks. I'll give it a miss from now on. On another topic google has block Elchupacabra site and I can access it with opera browser, but. Can I ask you about your avatar, the Chilean flag, I was born in Santiago 79 years ago and lived Down Under for more than 45 years. often I have to think in English to spick Spanish. Thanks again Regards John I don't know why MajorGeeks haven't investigated what's happening with their site. It's getting very difficult to download anything there. I also visit El Chupacabra's site very often and he has temporarily suspended updating his repacks while he awaits a reply from Google. I use Firefox and it was blocking his page with the big red warning about being harmful to our computers. I just went to his page a moment ago and he says he has to wait about 2 weeks for Google to resolve this (hopefully). He does good repacks/portables so i hope he gets this cleared up. And, yes, I'm in Chile...been here 23 years. I have family in Scotland, England, Australia, and the USA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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