Best Friends Virus (Reprise)

I know this might be cross posting, but someone suggested I start a new thread.

Unfortunately, I just got it today.

Here's the deal

Within 5 minutes (through windows search), I had tracked down most of the "prefetch" files and the original files that had been modified and deleted them. I pretty much deleted anything I'd consider suspect, and I'm hopefully not a total n00b (aside from the fact that I clicked the link in the first place).
But problems still persist.
I downloaded the AIM virus removal and it said that my AIM is clean.

The problem is that I can not see my task manager. The virus doesn't seem to still be active. Symantec picks up nothing. Is there anything I can do to fix the task manager problem? Any way to make sure my computer is free of virii? I tried your browser check, but it didn't like it because I'm using mozilla.

On a side note, I can't system restore. It just says the system restore was unsuccessful.

What can I do?

Please Help.

 

I've pretty much done all of that

I've done all the relevant stuff.
What now?

 

Re: I've pretty much done all of that

Okay, so I've turned off system restore.
I'm not on a network.
Viewing hidden files.
Ad-aware's on my computer, but it's a virus, not ad-aware.
CCleaner Installed.
Spy Stuff installed, even though it's not spyware.
The rest of the other ones pertain to problems I don't have.
Trend Micro doesn't work because i"m using mozilla.
I've run stinger in safe mode.

SO that's what I"ve done. Did I miss anythign important? I've also done a full scan with Norton Anti-Virus Corporate Edition.

Could we please address my question now.

 

Okay...

Not to sound annoying, but I've read the other thread. I have the Best Friends virus. Not ad-aware. Not spyware. A virus. One that needs to be dealt with.

I've spent two hours, and running a SPYWARE scan isn't going to show me any viruses. CWShredder is for a specific problem that I DONT have.

I don't see why I should go through all of this procedure when it's doing nothing to help my computer. I run spybot S&D everyday, along with ad-aware. I've run stinger, Norton Corporate. I'm trying to focus on my specific problem. One with the best friend virus.
As a consequence, my task manager doens't open, and I don't know what to do.

 

I actually have that program

I downloaded it when my task manager didn't work. It doesn't seem to list as many task as the original task manager though.

I'll post my hijack this logfile shortly.

 

HIjack this logfile

Alright here it is.

Aside from that, I use spykiller S&D and ad-aware every day. I am aware that malicious programs come in the form of adaware, I just know that's not the problem. Maybe I did have some malware on my computer, but very little, as far as i"m concerned.

In any case, I tried renaming the task manager, and it just created a new instance of the file in the c/system32 file.

Also, what is C:\I386?
It seemed to have a copy of task manager in there at one point. Maybe I"m confusing things now.

But as I've said, the virus (which puts up an away message) seems to have ceased, I just want to make sure that the virus is completely eradicated.
As for the logfile, I already killed the stuff that blocks my task manager. Should I restart and put a new logfile up?
If so, I'll do it tomorrow morning, because I"ve already spent way too much time dealing with the virus tonight, and I have early class tomorrow.

THanks a lot for your help up to this point.

 

I have spybot S&D, not spykiller...

Sorry for calling it spykiller...
The AIM thing as I've said seems to have gone away, but my task manager still doesn't work. If I rename my task manager and want to run it, will I just not be able to use Control + Alt + Del anymore?
When I run mytskmgr.exe from the Windows System32 file, It runs fine. I'll upload another HIjack This File because I had already killed a bunch of processes last time when I ran it.

The virus does seem to be gone, but I don't want any performance drops (as I said my computer takes longer to start up), and I'd like to be able to use my task manager. Aside from that, I'd like to make sure that my computer doesn't have any backdoors/trojans that are still dormant. Basically I'd like to know if I'm clean of this thing or not, and until my task manager runs, I'm pretty sure i"m not.

I downloaded AIMFix last night, if there's a new one out today, I'll try it.

So what should I do now? My logfile is below.

On a side note, if my HJT is out of date, where's the newest version?

 

It may be unnecessary...

I downloaded the latest AIMfix and it found and deleted the file that was causing a lot of my problems. My task manager works now, and my computer starts up fine. On a side (probably very newbie) note, why does my system idle process say it's take up 99% of the CPU when task manager is open, and when the CPU load is often at 0 or 2%?

I'll post a hijack this file shortly, to make sure I"ve got nothing else bad.


Thanks for your continued help.

 

Maybe I'm done with it.

I downloaded the latest AIMfix and it found and deleted the file that was causing a lot of my problems. My task manager works now, and my computer starts up fine. On a side (probably very newbie) note, why does my system idle process say it's take up 99% of the CPU when task manager is open, and when the CPU load is often at 0 or 2%?

The Hijack this file is up. Can you see anymore malware or any other stuff I should remove? I'm generally pretty careful with the stuff I download etc, and scan every other day for spyware/malware/adware. So I'm hoping I'm clean, but I just want to make sure this damned thing is gone.

The Latest AIMfix seems to be working quite well now.

Cheers.

P.S. For some reason it won't let me attach my logfile, it is currently "in progress" of being attached under my attachments. If you can't find the newest one, let me know.

 

Here it is.

Here

 

Thanks a lot...

It seems my problems have been fixed. Anyone with this problem can use the latest version of AIMFix.exe as that cleaned it out, along with some strategic hijack this.