Virus Scare

[Johntheawesomeguy]

I have not gotten a virus on any of my computers in so long, but I have noticed two odd behaviors. First, I was getting ads in chrome on the new page tab and in searches, although this was easily removed by resetting chrome settings. However, I also noticed that whenever I am in control panel or windows settings, the page will continue to scroll up by itself. any suggestions? I am getting pretty nervous over this right now.

[Shreyas1]

Try a scan with something like malewarebytes?

[Johntheawesomeguy]

2 minutes ago, Shreyas1 said:

Try a scan with something like malewarebytes?

I am

[Shreyas1]

Just now, Johntheawesomeguy said:

I am

Did it show anything? If not you're probably fine. 

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

Advertisement are typically malware messing with your DNS settings. I can't explain the scrolling. 

Here I found a blog that goes into detail http://www.thewindowsclub.com/what-is-dns-hijacking-prevention

 

Have a go with Malwarebytes or whatever else gets mentioned on this post.

Then head over to opendns.com, follow their instructions, and set the opendns.com/welcome as your homepage

[Johntheawesomeguy]

Just now, Shreyas1 said:

Did it show anything? If not you're probably fine. 

nah, it also stopped all of a sudden. this entire thing just freaked me out. almost reinstalled windows and restored off a backup

[Johntheawesomeguy]

apparently betternet, my vpn was causing the browser issues. so F*CK YOU BETTERNET

[QuantumBit]

1 minute ago, Johntheawesomeguy said:

apparently betternet, my vpn was causing the browser issues. so F*CK YOU BETTERNET

Oh yea some guy was on here yesterday telling everyone betternet was a virus or something....

[Johntheawesomeguy]

1 minute ago, QuantumBit said:

Oh yea some guy was on here yesterday telling everyone betternet was a virus or something....

someone should make a psa not to use them, I have had the extension for a while but this only started today