Virus type problems

Discussion in 'Malware Help - MG (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by Volta, Oct 20, 2010.

  1. Volta

    Volta Private E-2

    Bought a computer from a co worker and dont have restore disks, so im trying to rid if of its problems.. He pretty much told me he had no anti virus/malware/spyware programs running, and downloaded from torrents and looked at adult material.. The pc runs much slower than it should, and sometimes folders go missing, windows dropdown menus dont work most of the time, and sometimes you cant open any programs, move files, or pretty much do anything, due to an error message stating that the program could not open probably due to the hard drive is at compacity, which it is no where near maxed out. Its running windows vista, and ive done all of the vista cleaning procedure. Any help would be much appreciated.
     

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  2. Volta

    Volta Private E-2

    My MGtools log as well.
     

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  3. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    Your logs are clean. This is probably a system issue. I would suggest that you post in the software forum.

    Have you tried doing a system restore to as far back as you can go? Does it have a backup partition on it?

    These are questions you might address in your software thread.

    If you are not having any other malware problems, it is time to do our final steps:

    1. We recommend you keep SUPERAntiSpyware and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for scanning/removal of malware. Unless you purchase them, they provide no real time protection. They do not use any significant amount of resources ( except a little disk space ) until you run a scan.We recommend them for doing backup scans when you suspect a malware infection.
    2. If we had you use ComboFix, uninstall ComboFix (This uninstall will only work as written if you installed ComboFix on your Desktop like we requested.)
      • Click START then RUN and enter the below into the run box and then click OK. Note the quotes are required
      • "%userprofile%\Desktop\combofix" /uninstall
        • Notes: The space between the combofix" and the /uninstall, it must be there.
        • This will uninstall ComboFix and also reset hidden files and folders settings back to Windows defaults.


    3. Go back to step 6 of the READ ME and renable your Disk Emulation software with Defogger if you had disabled it.
    4. Any other miscellaneous tools we may have had you install or download can be uninstalled and deleted.
    5. If we had you download any registry patches like fixme.reg or fixWLK.reg (or any others), you can delete these files now.
    6. If running Vista, it is time to make sure you have reenabled UAC by double clicking on the C:\MGtools\enableUAC.reg file and allowing it to be added to the registry.
    7. Go to add/remove programs and uninstall HijackThis.
    8. Goto the C:\MGtools folder and find the MGclean.bat file. Double click on this file to run this cleanup program that will remove files and folders related to MGtools and some other items from our cleaning procedures.
    9. If you are running Win 7, Vista, Windows XP or Windows ME, do the below:
      • Refer to the cleaning procedures pointed to by step 7 of the READ ME
        for your Window version and see the instructions to Disable System Restore which will flush your Restore Points.
      • Then reboot and Enable System Restore to create a new clean Restore Point.

    10. After doing the above, you should work thru the below link:




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