Another securepccleaner victim--have searched

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by dvanorder, Jan 2, 2008.

  1. dvanorder

    dvanorder Private E-2

    Thank you for offering such a valuable service to others. I have read a number of threads about how to get rid of this, and nothing (adaware/spybot/smitfraudfix) has managed to work beyond a few hours so far.

    I read other posts here about this, and the logs zip file is attached. Very frustrating this slipped under not only Norton Internet Security, but apparently McAfee doesn't protect against it either.

    Thanks again for any assistance you can offer!
     

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  2. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    Please run ComboFix as instructed in the Read and RUn First ....then attach the log as well as a new MGLogs.zip
     
  3. dvanorder

    dvanorder Private E-2

    Sorry about that--here are the combofix/mg logs. Thanks in advance!
     

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  4. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    Please use add/remove programs to uninstall:
    J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 10"
    J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 11"
    J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 6"
    Java(TM) 6 Update 2
    Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 6 Update 1

    Please disable all anti-virus and anti-spyware programs while we do the following:

    Run C:\MGtools\analyse.exe by double clicking on it. This is really HijackThis (select Do a system scan only) and select the following lines but DO NOT CLICK FIX until you exit all browser sessions including the one you are reading in right now:
    After clicking Fix, exit HJT.

    Now Copy the bold text below to notepad. Save it as fixME.reg to your desktop. Be sure the "Save as" type is set to "all files" Once you have saved it double click it and allow it to merge with the registry.
    Are you still having problems? Have you removed all of your IE Toolbars and add-ons?
     
  5. dvanorder

    dvanorder Private E-2

    Tim,

    Thank you very much for everything. I think yesterday's work took care of it, but I went ahead and cleaned out the junk you suggested.

    This has been quite a lesson regarding the need to go above and beyond what the Internet Security suites like McAfee and Norton offer. Neither of them caught this, yet for $100 each would fix it. I'm considering pitching the free McAfee Comcast offers and piecing together a solution based on this website.

    Best regards!
     
  6. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

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

    1. If we used Pocket Killbox during your cleanup, do the below
    * Run Pocket Killbox and select File, Cleanup, Delete All Backups
    2. If we used ComboFix, you can delete the ComboFix.exe file, C:\ComboFix folder, C:\QooBox folder, C:\WINDOWS\nircmd.exe, C:\combofix.txt and C:\ComboFix-quarantined-files.txt logs that was created.
    3. If we user SDFix you can delete all the SDFix related files and folders from your Desktop or whereever you installed it.
    4. If we used SmitFraudFix, you can delete all files and folders related to it now including the c:\rapport.txt log.
    5. If we used VundoFix, you can delete the VundoFix.exe file and the C:\VundoFix Backups folder and C:\vundofix.txt log that was created.
    6. If we had your run FixWareOut, you can delete the Fixwareout.exe file and the C:\fixwareout folder.
    7. If we had you run Avenger, you can delete all files related to Avenger now.
    8. If we had you download any registry patches like fixme.reg or fixWLK.reg (or any others), you can delete these files now.
    9. You can delete the C:\MGtools folder and the C:\MGtools.exe file. You can also delete the C:\MGlogs.zip
    10. If you are running Windows XP or Windows ME, do the below:
    * Refer to the cleaning steps in the READ ME for your Window version and see the steps to Disable System Restore which will flush your Restore Points.
    * Then reboot and Enable System Restore to create a new clean Restore Point.
    11. After doing the above, you should work thru the below link:
    * How to Protect yourself from malware!
     

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