To be fair her teaching assistant put it on there and she has a tendency of clicking on everything and just isn't computer literate at all so it was more of an inevitability than anything. It installed a reskinned Chromium that redirected searched so it wasn't super bad. is ran MalwareBytes and got a few more possible threats too. Glad it wasn't anything super severe. I'm out of practice lol.
I literally just cleaned up a computer at my wife's workplace that had a hijacker on it like 2 weeks ago.![kitty-cri kitty-cri](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/82f8d044-cfac-47a0-934d-259e562013c4.png)
It's honestly impressive how many ways there are to hide those just in the browser's configs
To be fair her teaching assistant put it on there and she has a tendency of clicking on everything and just isn't computer literate at all so it was more of an inevitability than anything. It installed a reskinned Chromium that redirected searched so it wasn't super bad. is ran MalwareBytes and got a few more possible threats too. Glad it wasn't anything super severe. I'm out of practice lol.
Yeah, thankfully the modern ones are usually pretty easy to clean, I remember searching through configs for variations of the fake search engine