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Nattly.com: Drokk off! Muthadrokkin drokkheaded bag of drokk!

Started by SmallBlueThing, 12 November, 2013, 09:18:45 PM

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SmallBlueThing

Nattly.com- the search engine end of a particularly pernicious piece of adware/ malware/ whatever is squatting on my computer and I cannot get rid. I've tried everything- every online piece of advice and every bit of software "guaranteed" to remove it. Nothing works. I'm running Firefox. Any help?

SBT
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The Enigmatic Dr X

Lock up your spoons!

SmallBlueThing

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Professor Bear

You should be able to remove unwanted search engines directly by right clicking on the tiny icon inside the search box and choosing "manage search engines".  Anything more difficult than that may be down to your particular version of Firefox, but if disabling and/or removing it via the extensions/plugins drop-down menu doesnt work, you might want to manually go into your settings and set your home page and what Firefox does when it opens a new tab or browser window.

Definitely Not Mister Pops

Go nuclear. Back up everything you need and restore to factory settings.
You may quote me on that.

GrinningChimera

Quote from: Mister Pops on 13 November, 2013, 02:00:42 AM
Go nuclear. Back up everything you need and restore to factory settings.

This. Not the same one as you, but I've had a similar problem in the past and had to resort to a full format.

And try keeping your porn habits to "popular" or "mainstream" sites in future to minimize the risk of catching something nasty. Either that or use protection.

TordelBack

Quote from: GrinningChimera on 13 November, 2013, 05:41:45 AM
And try keeping your porn habits to "popular" or "mainstream" ...

You've seen SBT's tastes showcased on his Last Movie Watched thread?  He is not as other men.

I'd agree with the Bear that tackling in through Firefox itself is probably the best bet, as it seems to be just another bloody browser hijacker. So many of the 'help' results you get on Google are just ads directing you to do-nothing adware removal software.  I suspect you've seen it already, but Mozilla's help forums have somewhat more impartial advice: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/971815.

Failing that, look into creating a bootable Linux CD and running anti-malware software from that.  It's how I usually scrub my parents' computer of their adware-of-the-week.

von Boom

Have you cleared out your other browsers? IE is terrible for being a host for things like that that will just keep infecting the other browsers.

Manually check the date of the dlls in your sys32/64 folders. Any new ones that look funny? Delete them.

And have you disabled and removed the firefox extension/add-on?

Another thing to do is delete the relevant search engine from Firefox.

If all else fails then Tordelback's suggestion is probably your best bet.

Professor Bear

Also never install "download managers", as these are almost always useless and a backdoor to get you to install something nasty.

gurnard

It's probably deeper than your browser, in your host file list maybe.
Is this windows? If so if 7 then you can run windows defender just hit windows key and type spy

I used super anti spyware to fix an issue recently seemed to work well:
http://download.cnet.com/SuperAntiSpyware-Free-Edition/3000-8022_4-10523889.html

Hijack this is good as a last resort, it is quite techy but it will fix your shit.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hjt/

good luck

SmallBlueThing

Cheers for all the help- I did actually run superantispyware past night, which found 516 threats that my usual windows protection had failed to spot, deleted them- and yet still nattly squats on my machine like a funting a fat man with the runs. Argle!

SBTll 
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The Enigmatic Dr X

I say you nuke it from the air. Only way to be sure.

Reboot, reload - and be careful. It's a jungle out there.
Lock up your spoons!

Professor Bear

Malwarebytes and Spybot Search & Destroy are two I use, run in safe mode if I'm paranoid, but if the programme isn't an actual virus and just a really annoying browser hijacker, most anti-malware/anti-spyware programmes will just ingnore it.

The nuclear option is to uninstall Firefox then reinstall it, making sure you delete all the Mozilla/Firefox folders and files from your pc before reinstalling.  You can export all your bookmarks to another browser first, then import them back to Firefox when you reinstall - just be sure to check what version of Firefox you're currently running by going into "about Firefox" wherever that may be (it depends on your version) and it should tell you exactly what version you need to download so any extensions like Youtube Downloader that you might have become dependent upon will still work (YD not being compatible with all versions of FF).

The Enigmatic Dr X

Does it happen with internet explorer? If yes, I think it's going to take more than a Firefox reinstall.

Seriously, bite the bullet and format the drive! You'll end up doing it anyway.
Lock up your spoons!

M.I.K.

Have you tried System Restore yet?

Probably won't work, but it's worth a try.