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Ping.exe
So this is for the computer hacks among us. I have decided to shoot my laptop. ok no not really, however, I have gotten a virus/malware which launches a PING.exe process every 5 or so minutes. At one point my system disk had gotten corrupt to the point of having to run the Windows recovery system. Steps I have taken include running Malwarebytes in safe mode, and a generic disk cleaner(not Windex :cheeky-sm )
It definitely came attached with the google re-direct virus. I think I have mostly cleared that up, although on sporadic searches an eleven tab Firefox window is spawned, so somethings lurking somewhere.
Finally,the corruption erased all my past restore points, so the only one I have probably won't do much good in terms of wiping this thing out.
Googling it wasn't much help, but I came across several places saying to run combofix, but that seems more drastic then I am prepared to go. SOOO
any suggestions, has anyone else dealt with this thing successfully.
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