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Hello, recently every time I boot up my computer google chrome automatically starts too and redirects me to a steam-db info site which quickly redirects itself too into a gamerelease info site. I've tried running multiple scans with malwarebytes (one thread found which i deleted) but the issue still persists. I've googled up the problem and it seems to be an adware that generally makes the browser redirect to that page now and then, but my only issue is that it loads chrome to that page every time I boot up my computer (and not every time i boot up chrome).

 

I've tried searching for file folders, registry entries, there is absolutely nothing and I am going a little crazy. Many times I use this computer to project stuff in my classroom and that site has explicit content, fortunately there have been no incidents so far since I quickly close chrome before the page loads, but I don't want anything to happen. Also the feeling that something I did not put inside my computer is installed is also giving me on my nerves. any tips ?

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  • 4 weeks later...

bump I found out something yesterday. I opened up task manager and went to start up, there was Windows Explorer to run on start up. (Publisher: Microsoft Corporation), file location is : C/Windows ( file name: explorer.exe). Disabling it to run on startup actually stopped this thing to run. If I enable it again it still runs on startup, I can't delete explorer.exe because it seems like it is the original one. What can I do ?

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