Multi-browser adware infection not found by multiple scanners.

[Guest David Long]

For the past few weeks, on any browser I'm running - IE 11 or Chrome, I'm getting constant re-directs when I click on links - whether they're web forums, Yahoo pages, Google results - anything...

 

 

I get a new tab telling me I have to update Win 7 drivers, or I have to update my media player. I tried to install a blocker and lots of these came from *.dollfield.eu and lpmxp***.com (where *** is a number), downloadfilesaver.com or downloadju.com - and I get an automatic download of a file - usually Player-Chrome.exe or another that has to do with Flas forced into my Downloads directory.

 

 

I've examined the source of webpages to see the links and they're fine. It's like something is reprogramming the "OnClick" event - and every 'n' clicks I'll get this annoying adware (where 'n' is a random number between 3 and 10 or so).

 

I run MSE *always* but I know nothing gets everything.. Googling this problem, I've followed direction after direction. Anti-malwarebytes, JRT, Adwcleaner - none of them has done anything more than delete a few tracking cookies and flag the downloaded files (which I never execute, always delete).

 

Disturbingly, MSE never flagged these files but every other scanner did.

 

 

How do I find out what has hijacked my 'click' event?

 

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