Constantly getting a ton of PUPs and no idea why

Solkia · June 3, 2015

So I woke up today, got onto my computer, talked to my friends.

And suddenly I'm getting a bunch of installers, so I ran MalwareBytes in safe mode

hol-y-shit I didn't even download anything and I have 400 viruses

After the scan was complete, I quarantined and rebooted. was working good for a bit and then I started getting a bunch of installer popups again.

Is it twitter? Twitter seems to be a mess, and I had to reset my password 3 times in less than a month.

Ex0Thermic · June 3, 2015

Try AdwCleaner, JRT and ComboFix

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/junkware-removal-tool/

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/combofix/

also reset you web browsers too

Jade · June 3, 2015

Twitter doesn't give you viruses like that.

Source: 30+k tweets on it and no viruses.

LogicalDrm · June 4, 2015

I would almost say that from those 400 very few or none are actual virus detections. Most are random crap, keyloggers, trojans and other fairly harmless but annoying as hell stuff. The popups... uninstall any browser extensions you aren't sure of, and check what software has been installed lately. Some bloatware may have got through visual scan (eyes).