Browser Hijacker coming back even after reinstalling W11
Hey!
A little bit over a week ago, my MBAM scan found a few PUP.Optional.BrowserHijack files and folders. I did a full MBAM scan and found nothing, so I let it be for a day. The next day, the files were back. MBAM quarantined them, I did another scan, nothing. I then disabled Google sync.
Next day I decided to make a fresh Windows 11 installation from USB, and the very first thing I did after installing W11 was to install MBAM, enable browser guard, enable all the features MBAM allowed me to and then installed all the Windows updates and after that, changed all my passwords.
I did another full scan, found absolutely nothing.
Now, after a week of no threat detections, MBAM found 3 PUP.Optional.BrowserHijack files after a routine check.
File: 3
PUP.Optional.BrowserHijack, C:\\USERS\\\*\*\*\\APPDATA\\LOCAL\\GOOGLE\\CHROME\\USER DATA\\Default\\Web Data, Replaced, 7911, 1413514, 1.0.111688, , ame, , ,
PUP.Optional.BrowserHijack, C:\\USERS\\\*\*\*\\APPDATA\\LOCAL\\GOOGLE\\CHROME\\USER DATA\\Default\\Web Data, Replaced, 7911, 1413514, 1.0.111688, , ame, , ,
PUP.Optional.BrowserHijack, C:\\USERS\\\*\*\*\\APPDATA\\LOCAL\\GOOGLE\\CHROME\\USER DATA\\Default\\Web Data, Replaced, 7911, 1413514, 1.0.111688, , ame, , ,
I have no idea what to do, my Chrome is up to date, I still use the Browserguard provided by MBAM along with all the other features provided by the trial version and I also have Windows Defender enabled.
Should I be worried, or could those 3 detections just be false positives?
Thanks for your help!