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Browser launching at startup, virus with a sense of humor?
I am at my wit's end here. Earlier today I was unable to accomplish something which has never been a problem for me in the past. Simple file transfers over a local network between two Win7 PC's. I still haven't got to the bottom of it, but a newer problem has sprung up which would be pretty damn funny if it wasn't so frustrating.
So, in the middle of all my earlier networking problems, several people mentioned I should be using homegroups (which I still disagree with), and at some point after that, I rebooted my computer, and upon windows startup, a browser launched on its own and connected to homegroup.com (a bogus site). Hilarious... after an hour discussing homegroups, I get a strange never before seen bug (virus???) where my PC connects to homegroup.com on startup. Truly hilarious.
I've run full system scans with:
MBAM
MSE
Ad-Aware
The browser is Firefox (my default) if it matters. I've checked my startup folder, and msconfig. Also, note that homegroup.com is NOT my browser's homepage (it is still google.com as it's always been). I've checked running services... they are all accounted for.
This is hardly a catastrophic problem, the easy solution is to just close the browser. However it bothers me in general to have any unexpected behavior on my PC, and this one is extra special because of the whole homegroup ordeal. I am not sure how I could have a virus already... I just formatted this PC yesterday and have only installed trusted software (and MSE was one of my first installs as always).
Truly going crazy here. Is it possible while mucking around in all the advanced networking settings, I somehow typed the word homegroup in somewhere and caused this to happen? I doubt it... but I really have no other ideas. Help!
Thanks!