Hi all. Sorry if this has been asked before, but I couldn't get thru all the links in my search.
I recently had a file reported as suspicious by my PC's Avast Free Antivirus and normally, I trust the antivirus but I was sure this was a false positive. So I allowed the file to proceed and added an exception/exclusion for it. That forever turned out to be a wrong move as my browsers have now been hijacked and they sometimes re-direct me to other web pages when I click my mouse, like what typical PUPs/malwares etc would do. It's frustrating. I can probably solve this by completely un-installing my browsers and re-installing them, but I'm thinking with that exception/exclusion in place, the same thing would happen with the new installations.
So the question is, where do I find this exclusion instruction in Avast and remove it so that Avast would stop the file from running again? Sorry if I sound ignorant. I know a bit more about IT stuff than the regular folks but nowhere near those of you who talk about dll, scripts, Java etc.
Thanks for any help.
