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Hello, yesterday i posted about Avast antivirus being an asshole for not letting me into Youtube, then i deactivated it, retried, and this is what showed up, i downloaded that "Setup.exe" file, but when i looked for it to install, it didn't appear in the folder, then i reactivated Avast, ran it in my Downloads folder and it detected the setup.exe file as a malware, i'm really confused at this point, as you can see, that doesn't look neither like youtube or flash's download page, yesterday, that message appeared in spanish, but now it's in english, i'll leave you the screenshot for further info, plz help, i need youtube to study and don't want to format this thing again :(

 

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Yes, that looks very sketchy 

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I'd think so.

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Run malwarebytes.
Youtube shouldn't even ask you to download Flash anymore, they moved entirely to HTML5.

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Guys, i already installed flash, and it's still automatically redirecting me to that shit.....

 

 

Plus, Chrome is already able to open youtube, does this mean Opera is infected?

Well congrats, you probably have adware.

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

 

Run that and see if it helps

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Guys, i already installed flash, and it's still automatically redirecting me to that shit.....

 

 

Plus, Chrome is already able to open youtube, does this mean Opera is infected?

 

 

 

Open Opera, look at the extensions you have installed on it, remove the bad ones. (Especially since it only affect Opera)

 

After that, run Malwarebytes.

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