Because of suspicious behavior on my computer, I suspected malware and ran Spybot. It reported 14 problems. When I clicked "remove malware" (see attached screenshot), it failed and I kept getting the message "Spybot – Search & Destroy could not clean these entries in <#> attempts", where #eventually got up to 5.
When I reread Spybot, it was able to successfully remove all malware.
However, I don't exactly have the warm fuzzies about the earlier failures to remove the malware.
Anyone have any ideas of what went wrong? Do you think my problem is actually fixed?
Note: for the life of me, I can't figure out how I could've gotten malware. I am incredibly careful: testing every link (on 3 security websites) and every download file (with Spybot, Malwarebytes, Super Anti-Spyware and Microsoft Defender), even from trusted resources. I also have several security add-ons to Firefox (Noscript, Ublock Origin, Adblock Plus, etc.) Go figure
Malware could not be removed
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