i need some help and suggestions

Discussion in 'Malware Help - MG (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by nbmustang, Apr 7, 2007.

  1. nbmustang

    nbmustang Private E-2

    i have windows xp sp2 with all the windows updates. lately explorer.ee has een running really high in the task manager as well as iexplorer.exe. lately explorer has been running around 30,000k and iexplorere usually is around the same but it has gone up to 100,000. i have ran so many scans and nothing has been found. ive used mcafee virus scan, pchousecalls online virus scan, avg spyware scan, spybot, advanced window care, a-swquared. all the scans come back clean.. has anyone heard of this before or have any suggestions?
     
  2. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Hi


    Could well be malware of somesort as many scans may not find what the issue is, but it can also be a bad application you have installed of late, but to rule out malware please follow the below guide of ours:


    Please follow our standard cleaning procedures which are necessary for us to provide you support. Also there are steps included for installing, running, and posting HijackThis logs as attachments.
    • Run ALL the steps in this Sticky thread READ & RUN ME FIRST Before Asking for Support
    • Make sure you check version numbers and get all updates.
    • Very Important: Make sure you tell us the results from running the tutorial...was anything found? Were you unable to complete any of the scans?...Were you unable to download any of the tools?...Did you do the on-line scans as suggested? etc.
    • After doing ALL of the above you still have a problem make sure you have booted to normal mode and run the steps in the below link to properly use HijackThis and attach a log:
    Downloading, Installing, and Running HijackThis

    Make sure you also rename HijackThis.exe as suggested in the procedures. Use analyse.exe for the new name. This is very important due to some new infections going around.




    • When you return to make your next post, make sure you attach the following logs and that you have run these scans in the following order too:
      • CounterSpy
      • AVG Antispyware log - ONLY IF NEEDED you were not able to run CounterSpy
      • Bitdefender - from step 6
      • Panda Scan - from step 6
      • runkeys.txt - the log from GetRunKey.bat
      • newfiles.txt - the log from ShowNew.bat
      • HijackThis
    NOTE: You can only attach 3 files in a single message so it will require that you use two messages to attach all of these logs!
     
  3. nbmustang

    nbmustang Private E-2

    I had done most of the scans last week but i have gone through and done each step and each scan. i was not able to run the panda scan though. i kept on gettng the message for an add-on from panda. i had tried to install the add-on as well as skipping hte add on but wasnt able to do anything else since it showed that they page was dne loading but had an error. it wouldnt allow to scan anything. avg scan was clean so i am not bothering to post an empty log.i will attach the logs for the hijack this, bitedefnder, and runkeys.txt. i will post another message with the newfiles.txt
     

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  4. nbmustang

    nbmustang Private E-2

    here is the file for newfiles.txt
     

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  5. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    I'm not really seeing any malware problems but let's take a few steps!

    Uninstall Viewpoint Media Player as requested in step 0 of the READ ME

    Run HijackThis and select the following lines but DO NOT CLICK FIX until you exit all browser sessions including the one you are reading in right now:

    R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Local Page =
    R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings,ProxyOverride = 127.0.0.1
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Workflow] D:\Install\Workflow.exe

    After clicking Fix, exit HJT.

    Did you recently run anything related to TrendMicro (including an online scanner)? I wondering about the below which is a TrendMicro file name but lately it seems to be showing up on too many systems and I'm starting to think it is part of an infection going around.
    Code:
    "C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\"
    tmcomm.sys    Apr  2 2007       76560  "tmcomm.sys"

    Now please download F-Secure's BlacklightBeta
    • Download fsbl.exe and save it to the Desktop.
    • Once saved... double click fsbl.exe to install the program.
    • Click accept agreement and Click scan
    • This application may trigger a warning from your antivirus. Let the driver load. Wait for it to finish.
    • If it displays any items...don't do anything with them yet. Just hit exit (close)
    • It will drop a log on Desktop that starts with fsbl....big number
    Please attach the BlackLight log.



    Now download the current version of ShowNew which was just updated. Attach a new log from it.
     
  6. nbmustang

    nbmustang Private E-2

    I have gone and uninstalled the viewpoint media player. after running hijack this i could only remove the first 2 that you told me to remove, the third one;
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Workflow] D:\Install\Workflow.exe wasnt listed there. i did recently run a trend micro online virus scan 2 days ago. i have posted the 2 logs here..
     

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  7. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Your logs are clean! I suggest you update Sun Java as per the below.

    Uninstall the below old versions of software:
    J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 11

    Make sure you reboot after uninstalling the above!

    After reboot, now install the current version of Sun Java from: Sun Java Runtime Environment



    Are you still having problems? If so, you will have to explain exactly what they are since just have explorer or svchost processes using a lot of memory is not always and issue although the numbers you quoted do seem high. Next time they seem high, save a snapshow of Task Manager showing all the running processes.
     

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