Safe Mode SHuts Down in 30 Seconds (trying to remover Antivirus Suite

Discussion in 'Malware Help - MG (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by Chaser617, May 4, 2010.

  1. Chaser617

    Chaser617 Private E-2

    I appologize if this has been covered to death, none of the 'similar threads' seems to apply (though I might just not realize that they DO). But here is my problem:

    A friend got her computer (a Dell Inspirion 1501) infected by Antiviru Soft and brought it to me to fix, since I had cleaned this off my own computer once before. Unfortunately, when I take her computer to 'Safe Mode' before I can even get her password in, it simply turns off (no restart no 'I am shutting down' message just turns off). I have tried to get the logger programs that this site's tutorials provide and show how to use to work to provide some sort of log on what is going on, however the ransom-ware completely shuts them down, even after renaming the exe files to those names sudgested by the tutorials.

    Is this an evelution of this particular ransom-ware to where it refuses to allow safe mode to run? (something I rather doubt but wanted to know if this was a possibility) or is there a deeper problem going on with my friend's PC?
     
  2. dr.moriarty

    dr.moriarty Malware Super Sleuth Staff Member

    Welcome to MajorGeeks, Chaser617

    Your post is unclear - what happens when you try to run the tools in "Normal Startup Mode"?

    dr.m
     
  3. Chaser617

    Chaser617 Private E-2

    Antivirus Soft refuses to allow them to run, even if they are renamed as the tutorials suggest.
     
  4. dr.moriarty

    dr.moriarty Malware Super Sleuth Staff Member

    Let's start with this, Chaser617.

    Please download and run the below tool named Rkill (courtesy of BleepingComputer.com) which may help allow other programs to run.

    There are 4 different versions. If one of them won't run then download and try to run the other one.

    Vista and Win7 users need to right click and choose Run as Administrator


    You only need to get one of them to run, not all of them. You may get warnings from your antivirus about this tool, ignore them or shutdown your antivirus.
    1. Rkill.exe
    2. Rkill.com
    3. Rkill.scr
    4. Rkill.pif
    Once you've gotten one of them to run then try to immediately run the following.

    Now download and Run exeHelper from Raktor
    • Please download exeHelper to your desktop.
    • Double-click on exeHelper.com to run the fix.
    • A black window should pop up, press any key to close once the fix is completed.
    • A log file named log.txt will be created in the directory where you ran exeHelper.com
    • Attach the log.txt file to your next message.
    Note: If the window shows a message that says "Error deleting file", please re-run the program before posting a log - and post the two logs together (they will both be in the one file).

    Now run this: Using Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

    Now run this: Using MGtools


    Now you need to attach (See: HOW TO: Attach Items To Your Post ) the below logs created while running the above scans
    • exeHelper log
    • Malwarebytes Anti-Malware log
    • MGlogs.zip - normally it is C:\MGlogs.zip - only attach this log from MGtools.exe DO NOT attach any logs seen in the MGtools folder.

    NOTE:
    1. If you have problems downloading on the problem PC, download the tools and the manual updates for Malwarebytes onto another PC and then burn to a CD. Then copy them to the problem PC. Yes you could use a flash drive too but flash drives are writeable and infections can spread to them.

    dr.m
     

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