Malignant Chrome Extension

[Ken Pippus]

Mea Culpa, I clicked something I thought was a USPS tracking site, and ended up downloading "trackyourpackage" and a couple of other pieces of poop. Have gone to Chrome Settings and deleted a couple of obvious villains, but still occasionally have a notification pop up which, when clicked, sends me to some other malicious site.

Have run Malwarebytes Premium several times, and it blocks all this yuck. What else do I do to get rid of it permanently?

[Pete Nicholls]

If the pests were picked up by Malwarebytes, they should be in quarantine. Find them in quarantine and delete them (I think with right-click, Delete)

[Ken Pippus]

Did that. Still popping up, infrequently and unpredictably. Now trying uninstalling Chrome. Will probably reinstall it, it not without trepidation.

[Ken Pippus]

Okay. Uninstalled Chrome, ran Malwarebytes multiple times, disarmed all the Chrome extensions I didn't recognize. Waited over a week. Reinstalled Chrome, immediately on opening, it tries to redirect to

search.trackyourpackagetab1.com

I strongly suggest you not access this link!

Have uninstalled Chrome again. Any hope for ever making it useful again?

[Douglas Schuch]

I am no computer pro, so my suggestions are basic, but did you go to control panel - programs and look for any that you don't recognize? Are you sure Chrome is set as your default? I recently had a problem, and something else was set for default (search or browser, don't remember which) and everything looked normal, but it was causing issues, although not sending me to malware sites.

[Wiz Feinberg]

I found a guide that outlines processes for removing this malware. https://malwaretips.com/blogs/remove-tr ... -packages/

[Wiz Feinberg]

Here is another guide for removing the Search Plus redirect malware. https://www.pcrisk.com/removal-guides/1 ... r-hijacker

Do you have Malwarebytes Premium installed and running on the computer or device that got infected? If not, let me know.