Hello!
I have Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and I run AIG which is an online aircraft livery program. This is on Win11 Pro, using only MS Defender. Some of the liveries require a manual install, where the AIG Controller directs you to a site to download the livery manually. Anyway, with that as the background, I selected the option to manually install a livery only to be redirected onto an apparently dodgy site. The site flashed a few blank pages which indicated that I was being redirected. Almost immediately, a message popped up in the bottom right of my screen warning I have a virus and must click a button to clean. Now I'm not an idiot, was not going to click that button. Then I would no doubt have a virus! This message continually came up even when I closed the browser and rebooted. The message had yowa.co.in as the issue.
So what I did:
Went into Notification Settings - disabled the notification for yowa.co.in. It was the top entry. Rebooted. That seemed to stop the incessant warning message boxes.
Went into Edge and cleared all cookies (yowa.co.in) was in there.
Ran a Quick Scan using MS Defender - no reported issues.
Ran Regedit, searched yowa.co.in and found three entries. Deleted all three reg Keys entirely. (Note CCleaner Pro did not pick these up as issued when I ran the Registry Scan first).
Added yowa.co.in to the blocked list for saving and reading cookies.
I think I have gotten rid of it. Any other ideas to check and be sure? I really don't want to be installing more stuff like Malware Bytes to scan the PC. I doubt it is malware, just annoying adware running through MS Edge.
Thanks
I have Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and I run AIG which is an online aircraft livery program. This is on Win11 Pro, using only MS Defender. Some of the liveries require a manual install, where the AIG Controller directs you to a site to download the livery manually. Anyway, with that as the background, I selected the option to manually install a livery only to be redirected onto an apparently dodgy site. The site flashed a few blank pages which indicated that I was being redirected. Almost immediately, a message popped up in the bottom right of my screen warning I have a virus and must click a button to clean. Now I'm not an idiot, was not going to click that button. Then I would no doubt have a virus! This message continually came up even when I closed the browser and rebooted. The message had yowa.co.in as the issue.
So what I did:
Went into Notification Settings - disabled the notification for yowa.co.in. It was the top entry. Rebooted. That seemed to stop the incessant warning message boxes.
Went into Edge and cleared all cookies (yowa.co.in) was in there.
Ran a Quick Scan using MS Defender - no reported issues.
Ran Regedit, searched yowa.co.in and found three entries. Deleted all three reg Keys entirely. (Note CCleaner Pro did not pick these up as issued when I ran the Registry Scan first).
Added yowa.co.in to the blocked list for saving and reading cookies.
I think I have gotten rid of it. Any other ideas to check and be sure? I really don't want to be installing more stuff like Malware Bytes to scan the PC. I doubt it is malware, just annoying adware running through MS Edge.
Thanks
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 11 Professional
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Manufacturer/Model
- MSI
- CPU
- Intel Core i7 14700K
- Motherboard
- MSI Z790 Gaming Pro Wifi
- Memory
- 32GB 6000MHz DDR5 Corsair Dominator (2 x 16GB)
- Graphics Card(s)
- Palit RTX 4070Ti Super 16GB
- Sound Card
- Realtek Onboard
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Dell Q3223Q 32 inch 4K 144Hz with FreeSync and G-Sync compatible
- Screen Resolution
- 3840 x 2160
- Hard Drives
- 3 x 1TB Corsair MP700 Nvme's
- PSU
- Corsair RM1200x Shift 1200W
- Case
- Antec P20C A-RGB E-ATX
- Cooling
- DeepCool LS720SE 360mm AIO Liquid Cooling
- Keyboard
- Logitec G915
- Mouse
- Logitec G502X Plus
- Internet Speed
- 75Mb up/down
- Browser
- Edge
- Antivirus
- Windows Defender