Persistant malware survives new hardware and bios resetting

Discussion in 'Malware Help - MG (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by justwired, Jul 25, 2008.

  1. justwired

    justwired Private E-2

    I have some kind of infection on my pc and it has infected every computer in the house. I have installed the smallest harddrive I have and started with a new install of windows 2000. I took ownership of the drive first and then did all the updates available for windows. Although everything seems to work fine, there is something suspiously wrong. I often get a blue screen of death saying "irqs is equal or less then" the file mostly mentioned for the stop is ntoskrnl .sys.

    I ran all the steps for cleaning on the read and run me first,
    superantispyware found nothing.
    spybot search and destroy found a few things which I removed.
    malware bytes found nothing
    combo-fix ran and showed a error right away with the killall switch, ran completely and rebooted. When it said it was creating a log, I got the bsod, it took 3 reboots to get back and computer mentioned something about applying security policy. there was no log created so I reran combo-fix and it completed properly with a log.
    mgtools had a error too, but ran through and created a log..here are the logs you require.
     

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    Last edited: Jul 25, 2008
  2. justwired

    justwired Private E-2

    Thank you for any assistance you can give me. This has been an on going problem since dec 2007 and I currently have 4 harddrives infected.
    This is the first time I have asked for assistance. :)
     

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  3. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Welcome to Major Geeks!

    Problems like this are rarely related to malware. And since your logs are clean and this is a new install, it is even more unlikely to be malware. I suggest that you post in the Software Forum (possibly the Hardware Forum) since you are not having malware problems.

    We could run two other scans just to cover all bases but I'm not expecting anything. Please run the below and attach the requested logs.


    Running GMER to detect rootkits

    Using Dr.Web CureIt
     
  4. SUPERAntiSpy

    SUPERAntiSpy Private E-2

    It appears you are scanning with very old SUPERAntiSpyware definitions (3469) our current version of 3517 - if nothing else, I would make sure you update the definitions to be sure you are scanning with the latest.
     
  5. justwired

    justwired Private E-2

    Thank you.....

    I wanted to make sure I was clean before putting in larger hardrive and returning to windows xp pro.

    I did run gmer and there was nothing unusal there. (nothing in red anyways)..:)

    I will post a new post with new info a.s.a.p.

    once again thank you very much.
     
  6. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    You're welcome. Surf safely!
     

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