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Not a question of deaf ears friend, more one of trying to keep afloat with no cash on hand and needing to transfer some. It is not redirecting at the moment, on any browser but Windows has just done a security update so that might be hindering it. Currently scanning with the Sophos anti-rootkit programme - dreadfully slow and I'll probably have to leave the thing running all night!

I did pop in to Bleeping forum, someone with a similar problem was promised help, after a week he asked if help was likely to be forthcoming, that was almost a month ago and there has been no answer so I am not going to hold my breath for 5 or 6 weeks hoping someone isn't too busy or has popped his clogs or emigrated. I need to transfer funds from UK to my Thai bank tomorrow, once that is done I'll take off all my data and so on and then format and do a clean install as I can do that in a day or so. Malwarebytes says just about 3000 files and the Farbar programme lists the lot. At my age I should live so long to trawl through that lot. Ditto everything. So thank you all for advice and tips - hopefully my bank remains untouched and I can transfer funds safely tomorrow.

I'd love to use Defender as it is reputed to be the best rootkit removal tool, but like I said that option is not open to me. In Security under viruses Windows helpfully says this is managed by others - it isn't - and there is no option to turn it on. As for format and reload - I use the lappie for everything, thank ~God I just fitted a new optical drive if push comes to shove I can uses to save to double sided DVD's all my data - there is a lot! I fear that will be the route I will be forced to travel down!

I need expert help and advice - I'm only partially computer literate so one-syllable words would be best Here is the issue. I have both Opera and Firefox browsers and apparently Edge (cannot delete that somehow) and Chrome also somehow crept in. I use Opera most of the time, Firefox kept fairly clean for UK banking issues only so I absolutely do not want to fiddle with that. I have uninstalled and re-installed a fresh copy of Opera. I installed and ran AVG which found one virus it said it couldn't remove, I found the folder it purported to be in but I couldn't manually delete it either. It was a backup folder in Program files (x86) although I cannot remember the name. I uninstalled AVG as useless. I then downloaded and installed Malwarebytes Premium (trial edition) and ran that - it found 33 viruses and quarantined all of them. The problem was still there. So I ran it again - lo and behold another 7 viruses which I duly quarantined. The problem remained. I ran Malwarebytes 6 times in all, each time it found 7 viruses I duly quarantined, it as taken most of the day and the problem is still there. So I uninstalled that. Assuming it is a rootkit I tried to run Windows (now Microsoft) Defender. Windows helpfully tells me it is turned off, there is no button or link allowing me to turn it on so I'm stuffed there! Right - the problem is that whichever browser I use a command line pops up to open a website which instantly tries to install a programme. I cannot find it to delete it, ran CCleaner, Malewarebytes and AVG to no avail and cannot get Defender to run to scan for rootkits. I've toggled Malwarebytes to include rootkits - to no avail! Malwarebytes says the website address is: (I've deleted the https bit at the beginning for safety) xxxx://take-realprize.life/?u=lq1pd08&o=hdck0gl, the URL is 104.155.207.188 according to the Malwarebytes pop-up blocking it. Apparently it is a public IP address and owned by Google Cloud and located in Taipei, Taiwan. Can anyone please help out? How do I find where this thing has hidden itself. Clearly it is a command line somewhere that instructs connection to the site whenever I open a browser window. Letting Malwarebytes block it from connecting is only a short-term preventative fix.

My mil took affirmative action with the hospital holding the family bookings for Moderna for the last 8 months by phoning them daily demanding they give her the vaccine jab - free because of pre-existing health conditions in her case. She was so persistent that the hospital got to recognise her voice, she said she could hear the person answering sigh when they heard her voice. She kept it up for a few weeks driving them mad (this is Central General Hospital in Pahonyothin) and in the end as they had a delivery they gave in and told her to come in the next day and they'd jab her. She immediately switched tactics, saying that her jabs were free and they'd jab her the next day, but what about her younger sisters who had paid 8 months ago but were denied the jabs. Hospital in abject surrender knowing by now that this maniac woman would give them no peace and promptly asked for the sister's details, and booked them in for the following week. Seems they had the vaccines all along perhaps? Anyway, wife and sil now got their first jab, 2nd booked for next month. In passing and possibly not related, sil had no ill effects for 24 hours, then came down with nausea and raging fever of 39.4c so not sure if that is related. She refused to go to the hospital although I believe having a fever so soon after a jab is covered by liability insurance of the hospital? As for me, got my wife to call Med PArk on my behalf, got a filipino guy who answered in English, passed the phone over and asked him about a booster for me having previously had the free Pfizer shots there. Guy spoke really good English, came from an area in Luzon I know well, so we chatted a bit. Told me to simply download a link and complete registration - gopt an appointment the following day for a free booster. Said they are still working on the 6 month for boosters although aware of Anutin changing it to 3 months the hospital have not caught up. Went in, got my free booster, and told to go back in 6 months for another one. 2 pretty giggling nurses didn't give me either a kiss or a candy though - big disappointment there! So finally we all got jabbed!