Help to get rid of the Iminent Virus

Anonymous
2013-05-13T07:52:32+00:00

My grandson has picked up the Iminent virus on his Toshiba laptop.

Have tried to uninstall without success

Have tried to do a restore, again without success

It has also affected the AVG on his system, tells us it is trying to uninstall but does not

Any help please

thanks

jw

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Anonymous
2014-02-02T23:53:29+00:00

And when running the Uninstaller doesn't work ( it still shows up in my system tray after uninstall) what can I do after that.

See:  http://malwaretips.com/blogs/remove-iminent-toolbar/

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Anonymous
2014-01-23T03:23:33+00:00

See the following free removal guide from Malwaretips:  http://malwaretips.com/blogs/remove-iminent-toolbar/

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-08-06T03:26:23+00:00

    Very strange indeed. I can't even speculate how the IE setting for that carried through a complete reset unless the original search/home page was set to that from the factory, thereby being embedded in your restore partition. I can't imagine that the author of this junk managed to infect your restore partition which is typically protected from modification.

    -steve

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-08-06T01:44:47+00:00

    Hi Stephen,

    I would like to find out if you know how I could have gotten this Iminent thing in the first place . I have just done a TOTAL Windows 8 reset, did not keep anything did the full reset. I haven't even done any windows updates or anything AT ALL. The very first thing I did was go to open Internet Explorer to find out hoe to upgrade to Windows 10 and when I opened IE it came to this imminent.com page by default as the home page. As I said I did NOTHING but a total reset and went right to IE. ????

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-12-04T14:05:57+00:00

    start iminent does NOT show up in start up or programs or features or with any malware programs.

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