I know its a linux forum but want to call on your expertise in windows, so apologies before I ask.
I have a client with windows 11, sadly he had viruses throughout his system, a browser attack on chrome… its a new one and not sure if it will pass through linux or not.
Its basically a browser redirection causing the search engine to be replaced and converted to another motor which captures data for onward transmission.
Epistart or epibrowser…
I ran my usual cleanup tools
Adwcleaner
Malwarebytes
Superantispyware
Ccleaner
Got rid of over 50 viruse issues, including the epixxxx identified above
Into ccleaner, looked at applications installed and removed the epixxx from the system
Checked startup items and its not listed
Into control panel of windows 11 and applications, its still listed, but when I click to remove it is not found
Did a search hidden files and nothing epixxxx is found, no file, no folder, nothing.
After a restart I get an error message not found which is good, but I cannot get rid of the message from appearing even though it does nothing
Its ages since I did windows support and it used to be change win.ini or similar but that was back in 3.11 dont think it still exists
The startup folder is empty
Browser extensions is empty on chrome and edge, reset the paramets and happy its gone but want rid of the message.
Any sugestions please.
Btw… i did say get rid of windows and replace it with linux mint!, I told him that with his last computer a few months back when his old machine was infected, but his answer was buy a new computer, which he did buy second hand, that was also infected at purchase, so he took it back to the shop and bought new… some never learn !