Positive Finds Ads

FreeFallin94

Not sure if this is the right place to put this, so please move it if there is a more appropriate forum!

Basically ads from Positive Finds keep popping up on my browser, no matter what sites I visit. I have adblocker, so this appears to be a virus.

Have googled how to uninstall it/get rid of it but honestly I haven't found anything particularly helpful. I have uninstalled it through the control panel and there isn't any positivefinds extension in Google Chrome. Basically I'm not sure where this is coming from.

I can't think of anything that I have installed lately that would have caused this. The only thing I can think of is that Bullguard (virus protection programme) recommended I install a few Windows updates from the windows site, and ever since then I get notifications about allowing "plugincontainer.exe." access to the internet. This is the only other change in my laptop I can think of recently.

Any help would be appreciated!

jsa112

run adwcleaner

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/

FreeFallin94

jsa112 wrote: »

run adwcleaner

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/

Thank you It appears that a combination of running this and uninstalling/reinstalling Google Chrome has gotten rid of the ads!

dbit

Ad Block plus have been identified for taking payments to let certain ad houses through .
http://uk.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboola-pay-adblock-plus-to-stop-blocking-their-ads-2015-2?r=US

There is also a way to further arrest the ads even after they get white-listed.