Ads popping up in IE

Discussion in 'Malware Help - MG (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by milesc, Jun 24, 2010.

  1. milesc

    milesc Private E-2

    Hi,

    Internet Explorer windows containing ads are appearing at seemingly random intervals. iexplore.exe automatically respawns if killed via task manager. IE is being loaded at some point prior to actually popping an ad, as I often get a dialog asking if I want to make IE my default browser quite a bit earlier than the first ad appears. At the same time these ads started appearing, random background audio ads would also play occasionally, however the suggested scans seem to have fixed that.

    Logs attached, except RootRepeal which choked on the winsxs/manifests dir.

    I'd appreciate any advice how to fix the problem. That said, I'm not opposed to formatting and reinstalling windows, so if my problem isn't immediately evident please just say so. I don't want anyone to spend more than a couple of minutes on this.

    Thanks a ton,
    milesc
     

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  2. milesc

    milesc Private E-2

    Please close thread. Same problem as here:
    http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=218089

    @Chaslang: Bootkit remover was unable to fix my MBR as I dualboot Ubuntu and Vista via Grub. I had to boot into linux and rewrite grub to the MBR instead. Also, couldn't delete the System\ Volume\ Information\Microsoft directory from windows, but was able to by mounting the volume in linux. Anyways, thanks a bunch!
     
  3. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Welcome to Major Geeks!

    Thanks for letting us know your status.

    Yes dual boot setups like this would present a problem. Also I was not sure about whether BootKit Remover would support Vista anyway.
     

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