Atomic76

Thank you for your help! I did run the cleaning tool, rebooted and reinstalled Malwarebytes and that seemed to help - as of right now the icons are displaying properly. I have a feeling it might possibly have something to do with the program "IOBIT Advanced SystemCare Pro", since I only started running into this problem after I installed it. I'll post back here if my icon vanishes again. but I've turned off almost all the options for cleaning out stuff like the registry and shortcuts and other features in Advanced SystemCare Pro, so hopefully if that's what was causing the problem, it won't do it again.

This is a rather strange problem that started happening recently, which has me concerned - the icon for Malwarebytes in my start menu keeps turning into a generic icon. I've tried right clicking on it, and going to "Change Icon" and selecting the Malwarebytes Icon, but it doesn't fix it. I've also tried uninstalling and reinstalling and rebooting multiple times, but it either doesn't work or it only works temporarily. I've also tried turning on and off the self protection option but that didn't fix it either. Anyone else experiencing this? I'm just concerned if it's possibly some indication of an infection.

Just a follow up on this. I uninstalled Firefox and removed any traces of it from my system, then reinstalled it, used it for a little while, then did two more scans with Malwarebytes, and no traces of Vosteran are being detected. So on one hand, the issue is solved, but I am still not clear why I had to manually delete it myself when Malwarebytes kept telling me it quarantined the files, only for them to re-appear in Malwarebytes on subsequent scans asking me what I want to do with them.

I have Firefox installed on my system, but it's not my primary browser. I mainly just use it once in a while for testing out web sites I am working on. At some point a while back I accidentally got the Vosteran adware on my system, which Malwarebytes removed. However, since then, almost every time I run a scan with Malwarebytes, it keeps finding traces of Vosteran in Firefox. Is anyone else having this problem? I'm considering just uninstalling Firefox to see if that helps, and perhaps hunting down my profile folder for Firefox and removing that too. But I don't understand how these traces of it keep coming back and why they are only affecting Firefox and not Chrome, IE or Opera which I also have installed.