Good morning.
Will AVG remove the Chrominio Virus? I have looked on the web and tried different things but still get the pop up 'New chromium version is available' A cannot see any reference to it on the AVG site. Many thanks. Steve
Good morning.
Chromium was not in my program list. Tried a few things. I searched my hard drive and found a directory called chromium which I removed. Did an deep AVG virus scan and found a couple of viruses: Win32:malware-gen and Win32:opencandy-D (PUP) which i deleted. In my program list I saw a program, 'open candy' (or similar name) which I unenstalled. Re-booted machine and about 100+ empty windows opened which showed c:users\steve\appdata\local\temp\go.hta. Using CCleaner did a registry and file clean up. Did another deep scan, all ok, then malwarebytes, nothing. Re-booted then, hey presto, pop up message gone and everything seemed ok. Has AVG come accross the 'chrominio' virus (note the spelling)? I cannot see anything on their virus search bar…unless I am looking in the wrong place! There are a lot of articles on the web.
Many thanks, and have a great day.
Good morning.
Please find attached a screen shot as requested.
I do not use Chrome, I still use Internet Explorer V11. I am running Windows 10.
When I switch on the machine and log in with my user name, everything is ok. It loads the desktop icons ok. It then automatically loads a browser, which one I don’t know. After a few seconds it goes off and the above message appears.
When I start my own browser, I have a favourite which loads google search. I cannot enter anything unless I enter a letter then click the mouse, then enter a letter, and click the mouse.
I hope this helps.
Have a good day.
Best Regards
Steve
Good morning, Steve.
We will check with it. It seems that there is new version update available for Chrome browser. Could you share the screenshot http://support.avg.com/SupportArticleView?urlname=How-to-create-a-screenshot of the popup you received to check and assist you further?
Good morning, Steve.
We will check with it. It seems that there is new version update available for Chrome browser. Could you share the screenshot http://support.avg.com/SupportArticleView?urlname=How-to-create-a-screenshot of the popup you received to check and assist you further?
We'd like to confirm that Chrominio is a potentially unwanted program. We appreciate your efforts to check and remove the unknown applications and files from your PC. Open AVG Internet Security, click on Menu -> Settings -> General. Then select "Scan for potentially unwanted applications" and click OK to save the settings.
Thank you for the screenshot.
It looks like you have installed a browser named "Chromium".
It can be easily uninstalled from control panel.
For uninstallation, refer this article: http://avgread.me/1DEtNP0 .
If you see Chromium in the list, proceed with the uninstallation.
Feel free to contact us if you need further help.
Good morning.
Chromium was not in my program list. Tried a few things. I searched my hard drive and found a directory called chromium which I removed. Did an deep AVG virus scan and found a couple of viruses: Win32:malware-gen and Win32:opencandy-D (PUP) which i deleted. In my program list I saw a program, 'open candy' (or similar name) which I unenstalled. Re-booted machine and about 100+ empty windows opened which showed c:users\steve\appdata\local\temp\go.hta. Using CCleaner did a registry and file clean up. Did another deep scan, all ok, then malwarebytes, nothing. Re-booted then, hey presto, pop up message gone and everything seemed ok. Has AVG come accross the 'chrominio' virus (note the spelling)? I cannot see anything on their virus search bar…unless I am looking in the wrong place! There are a lot of articles on the web.
Many thanks, and have a great day.