I did a search for malware on their forums and some others have posted about it, but from what I've seen, the creator and tech support guys there are blaming the users for not "opting out" for installing the Opencandy platform (I believe it's a platform that randomly selects malware to install, as others have mentioned different malware from Conduit, which afflicted me, however they all said that Opencandy was mentioned in the installer). And if you google this for confirmation, please share any other testimonials you might find. I'm currently running Microsoft Security Essential and Super Anti-Spyware in a vain attempt to reverse these atrocious events, as I type this message from shudder Internet Explorer. I really don't want to reinstall windows. And, please if anyone has any suggestions to fix my problem please help me out. I didn't really know of any other places on Reddit to post this, but if anyone has any recommendations please let me know. Tell your friends, people interested in software, and post to Reddit if there are some more appropriate subreddits. Please, if you don't believe me, do some Google searches for yourself. I will never EVER even consider donating to them again and I am going to tell everyone I know never to use their software again. They had no need to bundle malware for money as they had a loyal following. Imgburn was a fucking badass program, even a MUST HAVE, as I edit and burn home movies to DVD all of the time. I'm really frustrated about Firefox being castrated, but I think, more than frustation, I feel betrayed. I found a few forum posts and a reddit post from this exact subreddit confirming my suspisions. I could not believe that it was Imgburn that did this even though I knew it was the only software I've installed recently, so I did a Google search for Imgurn Installs Malware. groan reinstall Windows and backup my 800 GB of data. System restore has also been disable, so it appears that I'm going to have to. I've searched for various fixes for that, but none of them work. It's hijacked my browsers and, after removing Conduit, from Firefox and my computer, Firefox is now incapable of visiting any websites as they are all "Untrusted". Malware Bytes, Microsoft Security Essentials, and Iolo System Mechanic ALL missed it. Imgburn was the only thing I've installed in the past week. I noticed Conduit search and Tuneup this morning. Believe it or not, the latest version of Imgburn has malware bundled with it.
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