HELP!! I'm under attack!!

[cgrammie2]

OMG - I have been fighting malware and viruses (mostly malware) for the last 3 weeks - I am computer literate but not a techie - I even spent $100 ( US) twice during this period to have my computer cleaned up by PlumChoice (company that cleans up malware problems) - there must be some deep infection remaining - Prior to all this originally only had anti-virus protecton (McAfee Security Suite) - mistakenly thought it also included malware protection - sooo I downloaded malwarebytes free version - also today downloaded Spybot. I've been running scans (both full and quick scans) several times a day for at least the last couple weeks. Something is not being detected and keeps "reinventing" itself. Ran the spybot scan after which I rec'd message saying Microsoft.Windows Security Center_disabled - not knowing what this meant I did search on Internet Explorer to see if I could find out info - clicked on website (supposedly safe one) and started getting all these poison pen messages/warnings - there are two icons on my desktop now (Data Protection Support and Data Support) despite doing remove programs thru control panel. Also during scan dialogue box says: "Uncertified Malwarebytes AntiMalware_is1 antivirus software detected on your comuter. You need to remove Malwarebytes AntiMalware_is1 antivirus software for correct operation of the data protection. Attn: If you don't remove Malwarebytes the performance of your computer will dramatically degrade - Press OK to remove" - which I did not. I turned off my computer and then restarted. Also my Malwarebytes logs are not being saved in the right place. One more thing - when I type in web addresses I'm redirected to other sites - not the desired one. I usually have to type in address several times before I'm directed to desired website. This also happens when I click on supposedly safe links after during a search. HELP!!! I'M AT MY WITS END!!

[Wide_Glide]

Hello cqrammie2 and welcome to malwarebytes.org

As we don't work on Malware removal in the general forum and since Data Protection is a Rogue, I suggest the following

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[cgrammie2]

thank you for your support - believe it or not i'm just seeing your reply - think i'm clean for now - since I couldn't find a reply I was desperate and used another malware removal tool.