![]() ![]() ![]() You run this and get taken to a web page that laughs in your face. In fact there is an uninstall program that comes as part of the trojan. The "sick author" from the program writers (authors) is a bit too clever to allow this uninstall process. Before I do that, is there any other less drastic step that might work?Ī lot of these "fixes" do not work. The next step that I can think of is a system restore. I have restarted Mozilla in safe mode and I've also deleted anything I could find from the publisher, Creative Island Media, LLC. Nevertheless, Websteriods keeps reinstalling itself without warning. I've run my antivirus program (AVG), spybot s&d, and lavasoft ad aware and followed the advice from their scans. I have repeatedly disabled and removed it from my extensions list, uninstalled and reinstalled Firefox, deleted files with the Websteroids name on it, uninstalled it and Mumble, and any other files/programs that I could find from that date. ![]() The claim of the Websteroids website is that it turns a webpage into a meteoroids game. Websteroids highlights words in text documents which, when scrolled over, lead to advertisements. I was playing World of Warcraft at the time, and needed to download Mumble on the fly, so I was insufficiently careful and downloaded an extension, Websteroids, at the same time. Last week, I downloaded Mumble, a voice chat program. ![]()
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