Removing sax.peakonspot.com bug?

I've been invaded by "sax.peakonspot.com". Is
there a way to get rid of it?

Peter Jason wrote:
I've been invaded by "sax.peakonspot.com". Is
there a way to get rid of it?

Quite a bit on google.
"remove sax.peakonspot.com"

Peter Jason wrote:
I've been invaded by "sax.peakonspot.com". Is
there a way to get rid of it?

I tried a search but got the usual garbage.

For your amusement, someone on a Mac recommends Malwarebytes :-)

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8440673

Paul

On 21 Jan 2019, Peter Jason wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-10:

I've been invaded by "sax.peakonspot.com". Is
there a way to get rid of it?

What have you tried so far?

On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 02:16:35 -0500, Paul
wrote:

Peter Jason wrote:
I've been invaded by "sax.peakonspot.com". Is
there a way to get rid of it?

I tried a search but got the usual garbage.

For your amusement, someone on a Mac recommends Malwarebytes :-)

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8440673

Paul
It happens with Chrome only.
I've tried Avast, Malwarebytes, CCleaner, & Win10
"deep scan".

Peter Jason wrote:
On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 02:16:35 -0500, Paul
wrote:

Peter Jason wrote:
I've been invaded by "sax.peakonspot.com". Is
there a way to get rid of it?
I tried a search but got the usual garbage.

For your amusement, someone on a Mac recommends Malwarebytes :-)

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8440673

Paul
It happens with Chrome only.
I've tried Avast, Malwarebytes, CCleaner, & Win10
"deep scan".


That's good, because it means the perp might be
in the browser profile folder, in the prefs.js or so.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/

AdwCleaner.exe 7,320,272 bytes

Adwcleaner is owned by Malwarebytes now, whereas previously
a single developer (perhaps in France) was responsible
for it. It is supposed to take care of particular adwares
(not all adwares, just the ones they know about, and have
an antidote). In some cases, when an adware has 16 variants,
there isn't code for all of them. So if a miscreant was
named "dogsbreath", it could actually be dogsbreath_16
and they might not have exactly the correct recipe for
removal. If the tool is even remotely close to handling
it, it should be able to name it.

Paul

On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 16:09:36 -0500, Paul
wrote:

Peter Jason wrote:
On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 02:16:35 -0500, Paul
wrote:

Peter Jason wrote:
I've been invaded by "sax.peakonspot.com". Is
there a way to get rid of it?
I tried a search but got the usual garbage.

For your amusement, someone on a Mac recommends Malwarebytes :-)

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8440673

Paul
It happens with Chrome only.
I've tried Avast, Malwarebytes, CCleaner, & Win10
"deep scan".


That's good, because it means the perp might be
in the browser profile folder, in the prefs.js or so.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/

AdwCleaner.exe 7,320,272 bytes

Adwcleaner is owned by Malwarebytes now, whereas previously
a single developer (perhaps in France) was responsible
for it. It is supposed to take care of particular adwares
(not all adwares, just the ones they know about, and have
an antidote). In some cases, when an adware has 16 variants,
there isn't code for all of them. So if a miscreant was
named "dogsbreath", it could actually be dogsbreath_16
and they might not have exactly the correct recipe for
removal. If the tool is even remotely close to handling
it, it should be able to name it.

Paul

Thanks Paul, the ADW seemed to fix it, at least so
far. The bug was really annoying.