Took a couple of days to determine it was open candy calling home. Went to checking for who is using your wireless signal to what the heck have I got on my hard drive. The fun began when a friend of mine that had just moved to a new ISP and within 24 days received a message from new ISP stating that he was now approachinig his 30Gig download limit. You can g00gle open candy and see how much the original users made from open candy. In the latest freeware download version there was included 'open candy' and then the name calling begins. There was a 'burning' freeware application that I have used for years. Re-enable real time scanning of resident AV program Choose the "one time only" option during the install.Ĩ. If you don't uncheck the box it will only become your resident scanner and only be good for 30 days before you have to pay money. Install and run Malwarebytes (full scan) and be sure to uncheck the "trial" offer box during the install. Disable real time scan on your resident antivirus program and don't re-enable it until the following scans are complete:ĥ. Conduit may be disguised by another name.Ĥ. Go into add/remove programs and remove any reference to Conduit Search in the program list as well as any other suspicious looking or unwanted programs. Until you root it out with the ant-imalware programs you have downloaded above, it will quickly reassert itself in your browser.ģ. Sorry for the caps type but DO NOT REOPEN ANY OF THE BROWSERS YET once you have changed the defaults and removed Conduit from the lists. Even then, it's not really "gone" per se, just gone form the list. Until you make something else the default you cannot remove Conduit from the list. Then before you close each browser remove Conduit from the list of search providers/ad-ons. Go into each of the browsers you use and reset the default homepage and search provider through settings/ad-ons. Download Malwarebytes free, ADWcleaner free and Hitman Pro free.
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