Malware on Portable Hard Drive?

Have you tried to format it?

For the external Hard Drive and a USB stick.

Insert your flash drive before you begin. Hold down the Shift key when inserting the flash drive until Windows detects it to bypass the autorun feature. This will keep the autorun.inf from executing automatically.

Please have all your removable storage devices ready for disinfection.

Download Flash Disinfector by sUBs and save it to your desktop.

* Double-click Flash_Disinfector.exe to run it.
* Your desktop and icons may disappear. This is normal.
* It will do a cleanup of removable storage devices, and write a protected Autorun.inf file to help prevent re-infection.
* Follow any prompts that may appear.
* The utility may ask you to insert your flash drive and/or other removable drives including your mobile phone. Please do so and allow the utility to clean up those drives as well.
* Wait until it has finished scanning and then exit the program.
* There will be no GUI interface or log file produced.
* Reboot your computer when done.

Note: Flash_Disinfector will create a hidden folder named autorun.inf in each partition and every USB drive plugged in when you ran it. Don't delete this folder. It will help protect your drives from future infection.

You can also try doing this:
http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/downloads/usbvaccine/

 

I don't think either tool will remove the malware, so it would be best to try to format the stick. Make sure you only plug it into a well updated and protected computer.

 

You can use this to stop the autorun features:
AutoEater.

 

Panda link works for me.Try this:
http://majorgeeks.com/Panda_USB_and_AutoRun_Vaccine_d6029.html

 

Hummm......have you decided to try reformating the drive? Have you run both SAS and MBAM with the drive plugged in?

 

I would suggest that you transfer any files you need to save to a CD. Reformat the drive and then scan the CD before you put it back on the drive.

 

Please also download MBRCheck to your desktop and have the external drive plugged in.

• Double click MBRCheck.exe to run (vista and Win 7 right click and select Run as Administrator)
• It will show a Black screen with some information that will contain either the below line if no problem is found:
  
  • Done! Press ENTER to exit...
  
  
• Or you will see more information like below if a problem is found:
  
  • Found non-standard or infected MBR.
  • Enter 'Y' and hit ENTER for more options, or 'N' to exit:
  
  
• Either way, just choose to exit the program at this point since we want to see only the scan results to begin with.
• MBRCheck will create a log named similar to MBRCheck_07.16.10_00.32.33.txt which is random based on date and time.
• Attach this log to your next message.

 

* Run MBRCheck.exe
* Wait until you see the following lines:
o Enter 'Y' and hit ENTER for more options, or 'N' to exit:
o Options:
[1] Dump the MBR of a physical disk to file.
[2] Restore the MBR of a physical disk with a standard boot code.
[3] Exit.
Enter your choice:

* Please push the 'Y' key and then press Enter
* When the program asks you to Enter your choice: enter 2 to Restore the MBR and press the Enter key
* Now the program will ask you to "Enter the physical disk number to fix (0-99, -1 to cancel):"
o Enter 1 and press the Enter key.
* The program will show Available MBR codes as below

* You need to select your version of Windows from the list. For example, enter 0 or 1 for XP or enter 3 for Vista.....etc. and then press Enter.
* The program will prompt for confirmation. Type 'YES' and hit Enter.
* Left click on the title bar (where program name and path is written). From menu chose Edit -> Select All
* You will see all the text in the window get highlighted.
* Hit the Enter key on your keyboard to copy all of the text into the clipboard.
* Paste that text into Notepad, save it to your desktop as MBRfix.txt
* Restart your PC.
* Attach the MBRfix.txt file to your next message..

Now please re-run MBRCheck.exe and attach that log also.

 

It's possible that MBRCheck is just not recognizing the MBR on your external drive. What malware issues are you having?

 

Do you have your OS disc for either of those machines? If you do:

For vista:
boot to the cd, choose Command prompt and type these followed by the enter key:
bootrec.exe /fixmbr \device\harddisk1

 

Yes, you have to do it with the drive plugged in. When in the recovery console, check that the external drive is recognized. Select it and type this:
bootrec.exe /fixmbr

 

No! Instructions were not being followed properly. The wrong option was being chosen. Your instructions did not ask for the MBR to be dumped to a file. They asked for option 2 to be run to - Restore the MBR of a physical disk with a standard boot code


However MBRcheck may not fix it anyway when the correct option is used, since it seems to fail quite frequently now.

 

With the external drive plugged in, toggle system restore. See if that doesn't clear that file. Did you boot into the Recovery Environment? Did it show both drives?

 

You included the external drive when you ran both MBAM and SAS?

When you booted to the recovery console, did you choose the external disc and try running fixmbr?

 

I have not a clue, as the MBRCheck is still not recognizing the MBR on that drive. But you are saying that everything is appearing to be there and normal?

 

Good to know.

If you are not having any other malware problems, it is time to do our final steps:

1. We recommend you keep SUPERAntiSpyware and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for scanning/removal of malware. Unless you purchase them, they provide no real time protection. They do not use any significant amount of resources ( except a little disk space ) until you run a scan.We recommend them for doing backup scans when you suspect a malware infection.
2. If we had you use ComboFix, uninstall ComboFix (This uninstall will only work as written if you installed ComboFix on your Desktop like we requested.)
   
   • Click START then RUN and enter the below into the run box and then click OK. Note the quotes are required
   • "%userprofile%\Desktop\combofix" /uninstall
     
     • Notes: The space between the combofix" and the /uninstall, it must be there.
     • This will uninstall ComboFix and also reset hidden files and folders settings back to Windows defaults.
     
     
   
   
3. Go back to step 6 of the READ ME and renable your Disk Emulation software with Defogger if you had disabled it.
4. Any other miscellaneous tools we may have had you install or download can be uninstalled and deleted.
5. If we had you download any registry patches like fixme.reg or fixWLK.reg (or any others), you can delete these files now.
6. If running Vista, it is time to make sure you have reenabled UAC by double clicking on the C:\MGtools\enableUAC.reg file and allowing it to be added to the registry.
7. Go to add/remove programs and uninstall HijackThis.
8. Goto the C:\MGtools folder and find the MGclean.bat file. Double click on this file to run this cleanup program that will remove files and folders related to MGtools and some other items from our cleaning procedures.
9. If you are running Win 7, Vista, Windows XP or Windows ME, do the below:
   
   • Refer to the cleaning procedures pointed to by step 7 of the READ ME
     for your Window version and see the instructions to Disable System Restore which will flush your Restore Points.
   • Then reboot and Enable System Restore to create a new clean Restore Point.
   
   
10. After doing the above, you should work thru the below link:
    
    • How to Protect yourself from malware!

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