Please help me out..severe malware on pc..

tradesquare · Oct 18, 2006

hello all,

i use my pc for video games as well as all other functions, but im quite sure this malware came from the video games side....

anyway recently i downloaded a program to help me understand the game better and well to my suprise, the day after i downloaded it, my pc was under attack.

it seems that whoever i downloaded this program from installed a keylogger as well as other vicious programs on my system (yes, i know stupid me )....

he gained access to my accounts and completely wiped everything away.....

i used spybot/ad-aware/and AVG but they did not help as the thief continued to steal stuff from my account....

i am in the process of re-formatting my pc....

but my main question here is......i have a few computers networked and am worried that the malware can spread through my network to my other pc's....

is this possible?

do i need to re-format all my other computers?

any help or further input on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You.

DavidGP · Oct 19, 2006

Hi

Well you dont necassarily need to format the other PCs, what I would do is to run some extra scans and tools on those PCs to see if anything malware-ish pops up.

Especially some of the Alternative Scans as in Ewido, A-Squared and Backlight as well as our normal guide below, only if something is highlighted as malware in any of the scans, then attach the logs for that PC as required ( but if multiple PCs are infected start a new thread fo rech PC and in the title add the tag PC #1 or PC #2 etc so we know these are different PCs logs )

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.

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newfiles.txt - the log from ShowNew.bat

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