Hi guys, Recently installed Windows 8.1 64 bit , (thanks to Murphy & CODYQX4 and all awesome helpful posts here ) Only thing bugging is Random Site visits from my machine . IE being default browser , periodically opens as per screenshot sites in New Window or New Tabs. + Some Justin B* , Miley C* pages etc etc. Ran malware bytes , Windows defender but found nothing. Found similar issue for Firefox , but no resolution. Thought some of us here with new installation might have faced this too. Any suggestion would be appreciated
Check hosts file, definitely sounds like you have some redirect / malware going on Where did you download Win 8.1 from ?
Thanks MrMagic, Checked the file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts) , but found nothing suspicious. Code: # Copyright (c) 1993-2009 Microsoft Corp. # # This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows. # # This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each # entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should # be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name. # The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one # space. # # Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual # lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol. # # For example: # # 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server # 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host # localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself. # 127.0.0.1 localhost # ::1 localhost Downloaded from MDL Forums ,I guess older post by murphy (I may be wrong , cause I no longer find it). HASH check was right. en_windows_8_1_enterprise_x64_dvd_2971902.iso
If it's a genuine ISO, then that won't be the cause, how did you activate it ? MTK is the preferred method, if you used a different 3rd party hacktivator, that could have infected you
Thanks All, Did Malwarebytes scan and removed the infected files. It was a unwanted software which installed itself, did registry cleaning using ccleaner.