I knew in my heart it was a scam BC_Programmer because Im very active on running regular scans from other sources that I trust.
Short of the 500 or so gathered from Malwarebytes, nothing of any significance ever shows up, just the trackers. No PUP's, Trojans, hijackers or downloaded files. I did see at one point that Malwarebytes notifications, displayed 1 item added to the start menu, but I couldnt find anything untoward. That was some time ago, say 2 months ago. Everything in the start menu has been there since I got this computer. There are a couple I dont know what they are or do, but they are pretty insignificant. Energy Star & Bonjour by name. Energy Star is just a program that rates products energy comsumption.
That was the other reason I figured it was a virus potential DaveLembke, it came from a browser. Of all things it was my TV guide that it took over. So something advertised on the TV Guide page may have triggered it.
Certainly good advice to clear out the history otherwise it has the potential to continually return & I've seen this on a mates home computer. It was too hard to tell him how to get out of it remotely, so I had to go there to fix his computer. ( Lucky he was fairly local then ). So hard to deal with when the op doesn't have a clue, dinner was nice though. LOL.
All clean now then. Thanks for your confirmation.
ImnoGuru.