Blue/Yellow Background "Install antivirus or spyware remover to clean your computer"

Discussion in 'Malware Help - MG (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by christhp, Sep 14, 2008.

  1. christhp

    christhp Private E-2

    Hello Everybody,

    I have a Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.66 GHZ Dell Inspiron 5100 laptop.

    About 3 weeks ago, my desktop turned blue with a yellow box stating "Install antivirus or spyware remover to clean your computer" (I accidentally clicked on the wrong link while downloading a file). I occasionally got popups that would tell me to install an antivirus program.

    I ran the SAS on the day my computer got infected.

    About 10 days ago I went through all the steps of the read and run me (including running the SAS and Malware again) and today finally got to the MGtools step. I know I was not supposed to run the programs twice::eek:...I will post all of the logs.

    When I ran the steps to the read and run me 10 days ago, everything went back to normal-the blue screen disappeared and the desktop tab came reappeared.

    I think I have removed the malware but I wanted to make sure everything is back to normal before I plug in my external hard drive and what the next steps I should take are. I also wanted to ask for recommendations about what antivirus program I should install to prevent this from happening again. I have heard about Windows AVG?

    Any help you could give would be great. Thanks! :)
     

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  2. christhp

    christhp Private E-2

    Re: Blue/Yellow Background "Install antivirus or spyware remover to clean your comput

    Here are the rest of the logs.
     

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  3. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    Re: Blue/Yellow Background "Install antivirus or spyware remover to clean your comput

    Your logs look clean.

    We just need to clean up after the scans:

    Copy the bold text below to notepad. Save it as fixME.reg to your desktop. Be sure the "Save as" type is set to "all files" Once you have saved it double click it and allow it to merge with the registry.
    Make sure that you tell me if you receive a success message about adding the above
    to the registry. If you do not get a success message, it definitely did not work.


    If you did get a success message, then it is time to do our final steps:
     

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