Possible Browser Hijack (Post "Read and Run me")

Hello all,

I've been battling some malware on my pc for over a week now. I am no expert, but the only real problem seems to be browser hijacking (constant link redirects to bogus anti-malware sites/products) and an inability to access numerous legitimate anti-malware sites).

The problem seems much worse in Internet Explorer, which now is most likely to crash and shut down altogether, while Firefox seems to work mostly fine as long as I'm logged into Google. Though even in Firefox, I do get redirected intermittently.

I have followed your "Read and Run This" malware removal guide to the letter and had the following problems:

1. I cannot get Combofix to run.
2. I received the Error Message Type 2 when trying to run MGTools but could not get my registry editor to run as instructed in the accompanying link for Windows XP. So I was not able to run MGTools, either.

Because the problem is intermittent, it's difficult to say whether the problem is resolved, so I thought I'd at least post the results of the scans I was able to complete and inquire as to how to get combofix and mgtools to work.

Please and Thank you.

 

I clicked "run" and tried both "regedit.exe" (which has always been the command that worked) and "regedt32.exe" as suggested by the MGTools guide. Nothing whatsoever happens...the "run" menu just disappears and that's it.

I have not tried combofix in safe mode. I'll do that.

Incidentally, I've read some recent references from others here about this ST0Pzilla crap, which has also been popping up for me on many of my redirects. I don't know if this relevant, but thought I'd mention it.