Could I have a MBR virus?

Discussion in 'Malware Help - MG (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by kennym26, Mar 12, 2012.

  1. kennym26

    kennym26 Private E-2

    System is XP home version 2002 SP3
    2 seperate hard drives

    My problems started when visiting a website and AVG antivirus detected and supposedly quarantined Exploit Blackhole virus. Afterwards firefox browser started redirecting to different sites. I shut firefox down and ran AVG scan, it found several trojans that it removed. I restarted the PC and still had pop ups from AVG blocking trojans. After using Malwarebytes, spyware blaster, advanced system care5, and microsoft malicous software removal tool, I restarted and started getting Microsoft development enviornment windows pop up saying problem running a script or something.
    I then used Barts pe cd to boot and then Drive Image XML to restore a previous good image to my C drive only. I did not restore the D system drive or a 2nd hard drive named I in the system. On restart I still get the Microsoft Development enviornment pop ups and after virus scanning again it found a few more problems.

    I should have maybe documented everything as it happened but thought it would be clean by now. I do remember seeing these.
    Exploit blackhole
    Pihar.b
    IRP hook driver........
    various trojans and some in system restore directories

    I am afraid to use the pc for anything substantial until I know it's clean and I am in the process of copying personal files to an external hard drive and DVD from safe mode.
    Should I worry about the virus transferring to the external hd or to my laptop if I hook up the ext drive to it afterwards?

    I have read through the forums here and elsewhere but still not sure how to tell what's going on in my pc.

    Thanks for any and all help!

    Ken
     
  2. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

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  3. kennym26

    kennym26 Private E-2

    Everything seems to be back to normal now, no more popups and clean scan.
    Thanks for your help!
     
  4. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    You are very welcome. Let me know if you have any additional issues.
     
  5. kennym26

    kennym26 Private E-2

    I have a new issue that may be related to the last one or could be normal.
    When I start up my pc everything seems to be normal but I get this Microsoft error reporting pop up. If I close it it does not come back until the next time I restart.
    Should I be concerned about this?
    Thanks for your help.

    here is some of the info in the message box

    NDP1.1sp1_KB2656353_X86_wrapper.log
    version.txt

    error signature
    EventType : visualstudio7x80update P1 : msiexec.exe P2 : 1.0.1701.5039
    P3 : kb2656353 P4 : 1033 P5 : 643 P6 : f P7 : install
    P8 : x86 P9 : 5.1.2600.2.3.0.768 P10 : 0
     
  6. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    Sounds like something you need to pursue in the software forum. ;)
     
  7. kennym26

    kennym26 Private E-2

    ok thanks
     
  8. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    You're welcome. ;)
     

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