{"id":2764,"date":"2012-11-04T20:28:42","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T04:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/?p=2764"},"modified":"2012-11-04T20:28:42","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T04:28:42","slug":"awardr-net-pop-up-malwarespamware-how-to-remove-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/?p=2764","title":{"rendered":"awardr.net pop-up malware\/spamware – how to remove it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, my computer, specifically, the Chrome Browser got affected by a malware that keeps popping up a Starbucks $100 Voucher Award window which tries to get my personal information (and faking customer traffic to defraud the sponsor, I don’t know which as I didn’t click on it). It has an URL that points to awardr.net. I believe this came from one of my Facebook friends’ entry that I accidentally clicked. From then on, every time I click on the Facebook or some of the URL’s, the Starbucks $100 Voucher Award would pop up to get me to answer some survey questions and perhaps my personal information (as shown below). It was so annoying!
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I searched and searched the Google without yielding any solution. Until I decided that I should use one of the Freeware online: Malwarebytes Anti-Malware<\/a>. It found the potential problem but it didn’t remove the file “expertpdf7_d165399.exe” until I removed it manually. It’s located in my “download” directory as “C:\\Users\\dtsai\\Downloads\\expertpdf7_d165399.exe (PUP.BundleOffers.IIQ) ” file. And it’s gone. Is it?<\/p>\n

It kept coming back. So I then removed all the Chrome Gadgets, which didn’t help. But it’s good to remove all the useless Chrome Gadgets.<\/p>\n

However, it didn’t quite do the trick until I completely uninstalled Google Chrome, restarted the computer, and re-installed Google Chrome when it’s finally gone. I believe it had managed to alter the Chrome software somehow. Very scary! <\/p>\n

Just to share my experience in case you ran into the same problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, my computer, specifically, the Chrome Browser got affected by a malware that keeps popping up a Starbucks $100 Voucher Award window which tries to get my personal information (and faking customer traffic to defraud the sponsor, I don’t know which as I didn’t click on it). It has an URL that points to awardr.net. … Continue reading awardr.net pop-up malware\/spamware – how to remove it<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-for-computer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2764"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2774,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764\/revisions\/2774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}