The scam promotes legitimate software, but is more often similar scams are used to distribute untrustworthy and unreliable programs among which may be fake antivirus software, spyware, trojans, browser hijackers, adware and other malicious software. Your system is severely damaged by the virus (35)! Soon your system and contacts, photos, data, apps etc will be lost. You’re almost there – we’re scanning software now We found that 27.5% of your system was corrupted by (35) harmful viruses from current adult websites. However, despite this ban, scammers continue to advertise Avira Antivirus.Īvira found that your system was corrupted by 35 viruses (the developer of Avira antivirus) not allow affiliates to promote their products using social engineering tricks, misleading methods, and deceptive advertising. Scammers behind the scam earn a commission for each purchased Avira license. The scam encourages users to click the “Repair Now!” button which when clicked, redirects users to a legitimate Avira page that offers to purchase an Avira antivirus subscription. Then, I uninstalled chrome, reinstalled it but same above symptoms persists.“Avira – your system was corrupted” Scam – Fake scan results The search engine went back to bing, chrome opens random websites from time to time, dmg file gets downloaded automatically. I then restarted the laptop but nothing changed even after the restart. I changed the default search engine back to google.

Things I've tried: I cleared all cache and history from chrome.

These tabs won’t even close until i click the cross sign several times. Random anti virus sites and other irrelevant sites will open itself in chrome. Once in a while, a dmg file will be downloaded automatically.

Since then, my default search engine on chrome has been changed to bing. Then, terminal opened and it ran some commands. I mistakely clicked on it and it got installed. I opened y2mate.is site and entered youtube url into it. Description of problem and symptoms: I wanted to convert youtube video to mp3.

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