Malwarebytes and Safe mode

Yes, thanks Corrine for that. Temp files? Will ccleaner suffice?

Yes, CCleaner will work. My recommendation is to leave the registry section alone though -- too much of a chance of problems. Although based on an old version of CCleaner, I put this recommendation together for someone I was helping showing my preferences and explaining why some of the areas were not recommended: Tidbits: CCleaner

Thanks for that Corrine, and what a lovely guide that is :)

Corrine said:

It is also not necessary to run a Full Scan. Malwarebytes' developers recommend a Quick Scan:

As Marcin said here

The full scan is very thorough, but 99.99% not necessary.

or as Bruce said here:

BTW , full scan has 0 ability to catch live malware and only a slight chance of catching traces

There are other examples by Marcin and Bruce, but you get the picture. For a first-time cleanup scan with MBAM, a full scan is fine. However, for "live malware", all that is needed is a quick scan.

It is also recommended that temp files be cleaned first -- actually a good practice regardless of the anti-malware software being used.

I have used Malwarebytes to remove a lot of nasties for people & have found everything detected has been picked up in a quick scan.

I have run full scans after the fact and always come back clean. :)

Edit; BTW thank you Jav for the initial Post

mitchell64 said:

BTW thank you Jav for the initial Post

I agree! Thanks, Jav.

You are all welcome :)