hijack

Welcome to Major Geeks!

Do you mean HijackThis?

Most people are under the very mistaken misconception that HijackThis is a malware scanning and detection tool. It is not! HijackThis is simply a tool that is used to identify browser hijackers and in some cases it will show entries for some malware that is for instance running at startup. A HijackThis log shows the following:

• a running process list with no reference to good or bad
• it lists the contents of a selected group of registry keys that is an an extremely small subset of the tens of thousands of keys that may exist. Again no reference to good or bad.
• and some of the above keys that are shown may show some non-Microsoft system services that are running. Again with no reference to good or bad.

The decision on what is good or bad is left a person with significant Windows and malware cleaning experience.

HijackThis does not come close to showing all malware that could be hiding on a PC. Anyone who has an infected computer and is relying on HijackThis without the benefit of running other scans such as Spybot, Windows Defender, BitDefender & Panda, CCleaner, etc. are more than likely still infected. In most cases, where there is one virus/trojan there are more.

The goal of this forum is to remove all malware, and this cannot be done properly by just seeing a HijackThis log.


Thus, if you have malware problems and wish to remove them, please follow the instructions in the below link and attach the requested logs when you finish these instructions.

READ & RUN ME FIRST. Malware Removal Guide

 

Did you download ComboFix from our link? Please try again and be sure to download from our link. If you still get the same error message, try setting the date on your PC back to 12/01/2007 and then try running ComboFix. If none of this works, fix your date and then skip ComboFix and continue with the other steps.

 

I believe your problem is that you are not downloading the programs. You are opening them (which is the same as running them) from the website links. I say this because of how I saw you run MGtools.exe in your logs. What I see is this:

C:\Documents and Settings\Alan\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\3RPSB8UY\MGtools[1].exe

The above means that you did not follow the instructions that said download MGtools.exe to C:\MGtools.exe. It means you ran it right from our website. You did the same thing with ComboFix and there is no way it will work that way. If you had downloaded ComboFix.exe to your Desktop as requested, it would show in your log on your Desktop. Please download ComboFix.exe now. And Save it to your Desktop. Do not open it or run it from the download link.

Then attach the requested log from ComboFix and afterwards, do the below.


Now run the C:\MGtools\GetLogs.bat file by double clicking on it. Then attach the new C:\MGlogs.zip file that will be created. You need to do this to get a new MGlogs.zip file because we really want this log to be obtained after ComboFix has down its work.

 

You still did not attach the logs from ComboFix and AVG Antispyware as required and you did not allow GetLogs.bat to finish running before you closed the Window. Do not close the window until it tells you the scan is complete. See the snapshot of what the window will look like on the below page:

Using MGtools


Attach a new log after running it properly.

 

Okay that's ComboFix but you need to get a new MGlogs.zip file by running C:\MGtools\GetLogs.bat and make sure you let it finish running.

 

Try running GetLogs.bat again and if you still get an error message give me the exact word for word message. Then try downloading (do not use the Open option, use Save to download it to your PC )the current version of MGtools from here: MGtools.exe and make sure that you save it to C:\ as required. Then double click on C:\MGtools.exe to run the new install and automatically generate a new MGlogs.zip file. Tell me what happens using this new version.

 

Well at least this time you downloaded it but you still did not downloaded where requested. This instructions specify C:\MGtools.exe and you put it on your Desktop. The main READ & RUN ME even states that you must not do this.

Also you have Spybot's Teatimer running which the READ & RUN ME also stated not to use.

Also you have multiple antivirus programs installed and the very first steps in the READ & RUN ME specify that you must not do this. You have AVG7.5, PC Tools and System Protect (which is probably part of SystemSuite 7 Professional). You must uninstall all but one antivirus.

At this point I have to ask what the purpose of your posting here. Are you havving malware problems? Basically all I notice is that you are downloading and installing too many things that you don't need and many do the same thing. And a couple of these downloads are things that you should never download or use (like Spyware Nuker, SpywareRemover)

 

Delete the below left over folders from them:
C:\Documents and Settings\Alan\Application Data\SpywareRemover
C:\Program Files\Spyware Nuker