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fatcat

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    how to remove PortaldoSites ??
    « on: April 19, 2013, 08:20:44 AM »
    does anybody know how to remove PortaldoSites Search?  ???
    I want it to stop redirecting me to all kinds of pages x.x

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    Re: how to remove PortaldoSites ??
    « Reply #1 on: April 20, 2013, 11:50:06 AM »
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      Re: how to remove PortaldoSites ??
      « Reply #2 on: April 22, 2013, 02:04:35 AM »
      SuperDave, thank you for your time and for the answer.

      Fortunately I removed Portaldosites from my PC.

      I had some time in the weekend to do a little more searching. I found in this article  http://www.americanpendulum.com/2013/04/10/portaldosites/ that i was redirected to this page, because of a browser hijacker in my computer, probably this thing called Qvo6, which was also in my pc.
      I had to download an antivirus program, otherwise i wouldn't have noticed. I chose Malwarebytes. I did a full scan and i think everything is back to normal now.

      I forgot to mention that i also hat to delete those two from my browsers' add on list and extensions and from Control Panel. And that's it :)


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      Re: how to remove PortaldoSites ??
      « Reply #3 on: April 22, 2013, 04:09:23 PM »
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      I had to download an antivirus program, otherwise i wouldn't have noticed. I chose Malwarebytes. I did a full scan and i think everything is back to normal now.
      MBAM is not an AV program. You need to install an AV.
      We should also run a few more scans just to be sure your computer is clean.


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      It is strongly recommended that you run only one antivirus program at a time. Having more than one antivirus program active in memory uses additional resources and can result in program conflicts and false virus alerts. If you choose to install more than one antivirus program on your computer, then only one of them should be active in memory at a time.
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        Re: how to remove PortaldoSites ??
        « Reply #4 on: April 23, 2013, 04:54:08 AM »
        My bad, I just read that antivirus programs are different from antimalware ones  :) Is Avast the best one?  I assume it is, because it's your first suggestion :)

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        Re: how to remove PortaldoSites ??
        « Reply #5 on: April 23, 2013, 11:47:10 AM »
        My bad, I just read that antivirus programs are different from antimalware ones  :) Is Avast the best one?  I assume it is, because it's your first suggestion :)
        They are good to a certain degree but some are resource hogs. I prefer MSE on all my computers because it updates daily and doesn't hog valuable resources.
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