help me to get rid of adcash pop-ups, please. I thought that ubuntu is a more or less virus-free system (
please,in case when u answering, try to be as thorough as it's possible, because I installed ubuntu just a month ago.
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Ubuntu has nothing to do with adcash pop-ups. It's not a virus topic.– JoKeRMay 20, 2015 at 20:36
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so, what u think, why everytime when I open a random page in case of every random click in a random place within the browser I get this da mn adcash pop-up, which lead me to various addvertisments?– newbieMay 20, 2015 at 21:53
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in the first place why did you install it? Don't you know that adkash is an advertisement service it pushes as many ads/pop-ups as possible. Look even here malwaretips.com/blogs/adcash-com-removal how to remove it from a browser. To scan and delete suspicous files within Ubuntu you can use ClamAV help.ubuntu.com/community/ClamAV– JoKeRMay 21, 2015 at 12:43
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You can try change your dns to like google DNS.. I have same issue and I changed DNS an than pop-ups doesnt open now...– MURATSPLATAug 5, 2015 at 20:00
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okay, now I can answer to this question by myself. So, this tipe of virus is situated not in the PC itself (may be it can create some suspisious files in various directories, but even if u remove them every time it doesn't mean that the problem is solved). It's just changeing something within the router, making some kind of new DNS (in my case it started with 185.) and this is the main reason of pop-ups. By the way, I didn't instal anything suspisios, the infection was from clicking suspisious webpages, adds, I don't know.
And by the way, because of the abovementioned this infection affects also via Wi-Fi.
So one have just to contact to Internet provider's support team, ask them to change that DNS into the provider's DNS. Or u can hard reset your router if u know how to do this and have all required information (if you know, for instance, the DNS of your provider).
Just after that antiviruses and PC or browser cleaning can help.
I appreciate all answers,thank you all who wanted to help.
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I would also say that most of the answers in the net is just cheating peep: everybody tries to sell something, to force you to install some products into your PC, etc... da mn cheaters just look at this one's name: adcash powerful remuval :D– newbieMay 21, 2015 at 15:40
Navigate the menus; Applications->Systems->Ubuntu Software Center, Search for ClamTk, install. if it doesn't run automatically, Applications->Accessories-> ClamTk, Do a recursive directory scan. while it is true linux is less vulnerable, it is not invulnerable. Because we are less prominent, we are less of a target. This is security through obscurity. Not a good thing. I ran ClamTk last night and it found a Trojan lurking about. Good luck.
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nope, it doesn't work ( clamtk found like 180 treats but I think those were from windows files, driver packs, etc.– newbieMay 21, 2015 at 5:57
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surfing internet all the day, trying to find something that could be useful. seems very few people have an imagination how to deal with it in windows and nobody talk about ubuntu. nobody have clue what could be helpful?– newbieMay 21, 2015 at 9:53
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@newbie point ClamAV to scan a directory use for example
clamscan -rio ~/command it will scan your Home Dir e.g. which will also print the paths where the virus or infected file at but not to think or to guess. Then you can manually delete it by going to its location.– JoKeRMay 21, 2015 at 12:49
I had the same problem. I disabled all the extensions I had installed and restarted Firefox and the problem was solved. No need to install any tool for adware removal. So please try to remove unwanted extensions (or ones you are unsure about) to solve the issue.
