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SIDE NOTE: You are getting very low on free hard disk space which is going to affect system performance.

WARNING: Do you have all important data backed up? You really should do this before continuing since we will need to rewrite your MBR to fix this and while most times this can be done without any problem, these infections can react badly and that could result in a PC not being bootable. You really don't have much choice though since these infections are too dangerous to your security to leave on a PC.



Now if you wish to continue and fix the malware - please do the following:

• Run MBRCheck.exe
• Wait until you see the following lines:
  • Enter 'Y' and hit ENTER for more options, or 'N' to exit:
  • Options:
    [1] Dump the MBR of a physical disk to file.
    [2] Restore the MBR of a physical disk with a standard boot code.
    [3] Exit.
    Enter your choice:

• Please push the 'Y' key and then press Enter
• When the program asks you to Enter your choice: enter 2 to Rstore the MBR and press the Enter key
• Now the program will ask you to "Enter the physical disk number to fix (0-99, -1 to cancel):"
  • Enter 0 and press the Enter key.
• The program will show Available MBR codes as below

• You need to select your version of Windows frrom the list. For example, enter 0 or 1 for XP or enter 3 for Vista.....etc. and then press Enter.
• The program will prompt for confirmation. Type 'YES' and hit Enter.
• Left click on the title bar (where program name and path is written). From menu chose Edit -> Select All
• You will see all the text in the window get highlighted.
• Hit the Enter key on your keyboard to copy all of the text into the clipboard.
• Paste that text into Notepad, save it to your desktop as MBRfix.txt
• Restart your PC.
• Attach the MBRfix.txt file to your next message..

 

Okay so how are things working after the fix?

Let's do the scan only piece of MBRCheck to make sure the fix worked.

• Double click MBRCheck.exe to run (vista and Win 7 right click and select Run as Administrator)
• It will show a Black screen with some information that will contain either the below line if no problem is found:
  • Done! Press ENTER to exit...
• Or you will see more information like below if a problem is found:
  • Found non-standard or infected MBR.
  • Enter 'Y' and hit ENTER for more options, or 'N' to exit:
• Either way, just choose to exit the program at this point since we want to see only the scan results to begin with.
• MBRCheck will create a log named similar to MBRCheck_07.16.10_00.32.33.txt which is random based on date and time.
• Attach this log to your next message.

 

You're welcome. Your MBR is now fixed. I just have a couple more things for you to do.


Uninstall the below old versions of software:
Java(TM) 6 Update 16

Now install the current version of Sun Java from: Sun Java Runtime Environment

Also delete all files and subfolders in the below folders except ones from the current date (Windows will not let you delete the files from the current day).
C:\WINDOWS\Temp
C:\Documents and Settings\Brandon\Local Settings\Temp

Now empty your Recycle Bin


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

1. 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.
2. Go to add/remove programs and uninstall HijackThis.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. After doing the above, you should work thru the below link:
   • How to Protect yourself from malware!