Tojan hit and followed the Malware Removal Read and Run Me First. Am I clean now?

Discussion in 'Malware Help - MG (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by preshpinoy, Oct 21, 2009.

  1. preshpinoy

    preshpinoy Private E-2

    Hi,
    I was hit with a trojan virus. First of all, MajorGeeks.com had come through for me in the past so I decided to use it again this time. Thank you. Now, I followed the steps to clean a Windows XP machine. Initially, I wasnt not able to run malwarebyte's mbam.exe. During the installation, mbam.exe kept getting deleted (I suppose the trojan was at work with this). But I continued with the steps. Then I came back and reinstalled/ran mbam.exe. It worked this time. Overall, the steps did a great job, I think. The symptoms of the trojan disappeared. However, it doesn't mean that my computer was fixed. Can you please tell me if I am truly cured? Thanks!
    P.S. If you need the MGlogs.zip file, please let me know.

    Here are my logs:

    This HijackThis log was made after running through the steps.

    Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
    Scan saved at 7:14:38 PM, on 10/21/2009
    Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
    MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16915)

    Edit by chaslang: Inline HJT, ComboFix, SAS, MBAM, and RR logs removed. READ & RUN ME FIRST. Malware Removal Guide sticky not properly followed or completed.
     
    Last edited by a moderator: Oct 23, 2009
  2. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Re: Tojan hit and followed the Malware Removal Read and Run Me First. Am I clean now

    Welcome to Major Geeks!

    You need to follow ALL of the instructions in our cleaning procedure all the way thru to running MGtools and attaching logs. We do not ask for or want a HijackThis log especially from a 3 year out of date version of the program. You did not update Malwarebytes as requested and were more then 225 database version out of date

    Also you MUST attach logs. Inline logs are deleted!!!



    Please read ALL of this message including the notes before doing anything.

    Please follow the instructions in the below link:

    READ & RUN ME FIRST. Malware Removal Guide



    and attach the requested logs when you finish these instructions.
    • **** If something does not run, write down the info to explain to us later but keep on going. ****
    • Do not assume that because one step does not work that they all will not. MGtools will frequently run even when all other tools will not.

    • After completing the READ & RUN ME and attaching your logs, make sure that you tell us what problems still remain ( if any still do )!
    Helpful Notes:

    1. If you run into problems trying to run the READ & RUN ME or any of the scans in normal boot mode, you can run the steps in safe boot mode but make sure you tell us what you did later when you post logs. See the below if you do not know how to boot in safe mode:
    2. If you have problems downloading on the problem PC, download the tools and the manual updates for SUPERAntiSpyware and Malwarebytes ( links are given in the READ & RUN ME) onto another PC and then burn to a CD. Then copy them to the problem PC. You will have to skip getting updates if (and only if) your internet connection does not work. Yes you could use a flash drive too but flash drives are writeable and infections can spread to them.
    3. If you cannot seem to login to an infected user account, try using a different user account (if you have one) in either normal or safe boot mode and running only SUPERAntiSpyware and Malwarebytes while logged into this other user account. Then reboot and see if you can log into the problem user account. If you can then run SUPERAntiSpyware, Malwarebytes, ComboFix and MGtools on the infected account as requested in the instructions.
    4. To avoid additional delay in getting a response, it is strongly advised that after completing the READ & RUN ME you also read this sticky:
    Any additional post is a bump which will add more delay. Once you attach the logs, your thread will be in the work queue and as stated our system works the oldest threads FIRST.
     

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