Argh. I'm INCREDIBLY meticulous when it comes to PC security. I run selected suites of protective software, am careful about what I download and what sites I visit, and generally know how to avoid adware.

Until Friday. My brother wanted me to install Slender (if you're not familiar with it, google it) on the PC so I could play it. The installer I downloaded prompted to install the usual hitchhiking toolbar software...I elected not to. Continued with the install. My brother played some Slender, stuff happened and time passed. Later, I got on my computer to read some RPS and saw a fun rollover ad. Thinking "RPS would never sell their souls to the rollover ad demons" I tried another site. More rollover ads, same ad provider. Looks like this:



I CANNOT get rid of this s***. I've run adaware, spybot S&D, MalwareBytes, ccleaner, WindowsDefender, EVERYTHING. Twice. Still there. Any advice? Anyone ever seen this one before? Google search for Solid Savings returns no useful results. I'm getting angry. And not the fun kind of angry.

EDIT:
Damn I'm dumb. My seventh time through the add/remove programs dialog, I FINALLY spotted Solid Savings in the list.
Well, if anyone else runs into this garbage, now you know how to fix it. I'll just leave this here.

MinisterofDOOM wrote:My seventh time through the add/remove programs dialog, I FINALLY spotted Solid Savings in the list. Well, if anyone else runs into this garbage, now you know how to fix it. I'll just leave this here.

Interesting. I usually sort by date added so it's easier to find the stuff I recently added by mistake. Also Ad Block as a feature that allows you to remove specific elements that might not be picked up as ads. This isn't relevant to this particular situation but I find it still useful.

http://i.imgur.com/5dFlHu6.png

neat imgur menu option.

RCA wrote:I usually sort by date added so it's easier to find the stuff I recently added by mistake.

Oh, I know. as I said, I'm dumb.

Ace2cool wrote:neat imgur menu option.

Comes in really handy. It's the Imgur extension for Chrome.

MinisterofDOOM wrote:Oh, I know. as I said, I'm dumb.

Ahh, I see.