Try websearching on the zbot topic with an eye towards what has proven to be successful from people who have solved the problem. Look for things like Registry entries and then look in your Registry and see if that rogue entry is there. It likely is not, since you did the right thing and did not Click on that webpage warning.

I don't like using the keyboard to shut down the browser like you did when encountering those false flag website "alerts" because some day a bad boy is going to include those keystrokes as being the click needed to install the baddie. There are plenty of those warnings that purport to look like a Windows message box and have two buttons, one marked Cancel or No -- but clicking on ANY button on the onscreen popup results in the same thing as clicking on Yes.

I take the long path, hold down the Power button for 5 secs or so and just force a total Shutdown. Then reboot, of course.


--Mac