Helping a Friend Clean her Computer

Discussion in 'Malware Help - MG (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by vorshlumpf, Jul 6, 2007.

  1. vorshlumpf

    vorshlumpf Private E-2

    Hello everyone,

    My friend was complaining about her computer getting really slow, so I offered to help her as best I can. I spent about 5 hours on her computer last Saturday and unfortunately haven't taken the time to report my findings here until now.

    I appreciate any help you can give me. I followed your directions for general Malware detection/removal and sent the resulting files to my home computer for analysis and posting. I know I messed up two steps at least: the renaming of HijackThis and saving BitDefender log. Hmm, and I don't have a CounterSpy log, it seems - I initially had trouble with that step but I'm sure I did it. However, I cannot return for a while to redo anything so hopefully this is sufficient. Let me know if there is anything else you need.
     

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  2. vorshlumpf

    vorshlumpf Private E-2

    Hijack this log, and an error I got running the Panda scan, if it matters.
     

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  3. vorshlumpf

    vorshlumpf Private E-2

    By the way, I got an error when I first tried posting this thread. The message ended with "If you followed a valid link, contact the administrator".
     
  4. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    The logs you provided do not show any malware....however: You did not rename HJT as per the instructions so it may have missed a few things.
    You are running NOrton ...that in itself will slow the computer down.
    You also need to uninstall all the old Java.

    Please attach a new / renamed HJT log.
     
  5. vorshlumpf

    vorshlumpf Private E-2

    Okay, thanks.
    I'll do that as soon as I can (if I can't get my friend to do that step herself).
     
  6. vorshlumpf

    vorshlumpf Private E-2

    Okay, here is the new Hijack this log after having renamed the executable.
     

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  7. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    The log is clean .....you may wish to post in the software section ..though I suspect that Norton is the culprit .....she's clean.:)
     
  8. vorshlumpf

    vorshlumpf Private E-2

    Thanks a lot for your time. I'll do so.

    - Niilo
     

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