CUP at 100% usages at start up. 36 .c files can't be removed from desktop

Discussion in 'Malware Help - MG (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by frazzo, Feb 17, 2012.

  1. frazzo

    frazzo Private E-2

    I wanted to start learning to build a blog page so I went to the below sites and downloaded them Then I had to unzip the files and that is when my desk top filled up with files and my CPU was working overtime. I'd delete all the files many times and when restarting they all came back and my lap top is now very slow to boot-up and slow to operate. All the 36 files that keep reappearing end in .c lie ( hash_snefru.c )
    I have deleted the wordpress downloads but that has helped nothing.

    http://en.wordpress.com/features/
    http://www.premiumwptheme.net/

    Sure could use some help. Thanks
     
  2. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Please follow the instructions in the below link:

    READ & RUN ME FIRST. Malware Removal Guide


    and attach the requested logs when you finish these instructions.
    • **** If something does not run, write down the info to explain to us later but keep on going. ****
    • Do not assume that because one step does not work that they all will not. MGtools will frequently run even when all other tools will not.

    • After completing the READ & RUN ME and attaching your logs, make sure that you tell us what problems still remain ( if any still do )!
     
  3. frazzo

    frazzo Private E-2

    Well I followed all the removal proceedures rebooted and the problem still exists.
    Any space on my desktop is filled with a notepad file. All these files are C files? When I open the files they all have PHP version 5 as their first line. Everything else looks like code or programming of some sort.

    I delete all these files from the desktop then empty the bin. I reboot and the desktop is again full but it takes time to start because it seems it has to lood all these files to the desktop. The computer is sluggish and the CPU bounces from 0 to 100% usage all the time.

    Nothing has changed since running all these programs.

    The requested logs are attached.

    Thanks muchly.

    Wayne
     

    Attached Files:

  4. frazzo

    frazzo Private E-2

    Hi I have one more log to submit.

    Thanks for just being here guys.....

    Wayne
     

    Attached Files:

  5. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Yes because you are not having malware problems. Forgive me for sounding blunt and please do not take this the wrong way, but your problem is due to the extremely sillyness of what you did to yourself.

    You extracted more than 13,200 files to your Desktop of all places to extract things to! The Desktop is not a place to store things other than links to run files and this should be kept at a minimum. But large file sizes on the Desktop or also storing large numbers of files on the Desktop will slow a PC down. You should have created a folder ( not on the Desktop ) for this work and you should have extracted the files to this folder. I will give you some instructions to try in order to help yourself out of this situation but again this is not malware. It is a problem created by you.

    Since you have so many files on your Desktop, it does not look to you like you are deleting them but you are. You just have thousands of them and with similar names so you thing they keep coming back. It may take a few iterations to cleanup all of his mess because there are just too many file names and types to scroll thru. We will begin with small batch file which should cleanup a significant number of them and reduce the workload quite a bit.


    Download and save the below to your PC. You must save it into the C:\MGtools folder. DO NOT save it on your Desktop!!!!!! Then double click on it to run it.

    cleanup.bat

    It should take reasonably fast. Wait for the command prompt window to disappear before doing the below.

    Now run the C:\MGtools\GetLogs.bat file by double clicking on it (Note: if using Vista or Win7, don't double click, use right click and select Run As Administrator).



    Then attach the below logs:
    • C:\MGlogs.zip
     
  6. frazzo

    frazzo Private E-2

    Well, what a lesson this is. Yes that was very stupid of me to dump all all those files on the desktop rather than properly in a folder elsewhere.

    Thanks so much for finding that out for me and for your kind help.

    The requested log is attached.

    Thanks again so much.
    Wayne
     

    Attached Files:

  7. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Hmmmm? None of the files were removed. Did th cleanup.bat file appear to run? Did you notice any error messages?

    Try doing the below.

    Click Start, Run and enter cmd and click OK. This should open up a black command prompt window where the user prompt should be:

    C:\Documents and Settings\tossy>

    If you see the above prompt then enter the below commands in black bold print. The purple text is just informational.

    cd desktop << The prompt should change to C:\Documents and Settings\tossy\Desktop>
    attrib -r -h -s *.* << There is a space before each of the -r, -h and -s options and before the *.*
    del *.phpt << There is a space before the *.
    del *.c << There is a space before the *.
    del *.h << There is a space before the *.
    del *.jpeg << There is a space before the *.
    del *.zip << There is a space before the *.

    Did the above all seem to work without any error messages? If yes, then do the below, otherwise tell me what happened.

    Now run the C:\MGtools\GetLogs.bat file by double clicking on it (Note: if using Vista or Win7, don't double click, use right click and select Run As Administrator).

    Then attach the below logs:
    • C:\MGlogs.zip
     
  8. frazzo

    frazzo Private E-2

    The cleanup.bat file flashed quikly and I assumed it was just very fast but I did it again and it did the same thing? There were no error messages.

    MGlogs zip attatched.

    Thanks for sticking to this.

    Wayne
     

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  9. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    You're welcome
    Not sure why it did not work but the ones from command prompt seem to be working so let's do some more below.


    Click Start, Run and enter cmd and click OK. This should open up a black command prompt window where the user prompt should be:

    C:\Documents and Settings\tossy>

    If you see the above prompt then enter the below commands in black bold print. The purple text is just informational.

    cd desktop << The prompt should change to C:\Documents and Settings\tossy\Desktop>
    attrib -r -h -s *.* << There is a space before each of the -r, -h and -s options and before the *.*
    del *.bat << There is a space before the *.
    del *.jpg << There is a space before the *.
    del *.png << There is a space before the *.
    del *.gif << There is a space before the *.
    del *.php << There is a space before the *.
    del *.inc << There is a space before the *.
    del *.x* << There is a space before the *.
    del *.tar << There is a space before the *.
    del *.wsdl << There is a space before the *.

    Do not close the command prompt Window yet!!!


    Did the above all seem to work without any error messages? If yes, then do the below, otherwise tell me what happened.

    Now download and save a new cleanup.bat but this time we MUST save it to your Desktop!

    cleanup.bat

    Now in the command prompt window, type cleanup.bat and hit enter. It should take reasonably fast.

    Now run the C:\MGtools\GetLogs.bat file by double clicking on it (Note: if using Vista or Win7, don't double click, use right click and select Run As Administrator).

    Then attach the below logs:
    • C:\MGlogs.zip
     
  10. frazzo

    frazzo Private E-2

    Hi: Your batch file removal method really works to clean thoase files off my desk top. There were still a ton of files left however mostly with different file extensions.
    So I cleared everything I wanted off the desktop and used your method to then clear all files from the desk top and that worked. So now thanks to you I am free and clear.
    A stupid mistake turned into a learning experience.
    Thanks.

    Wayne
     
  11. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    You're welcome.


    If you are not having any other malware problems, it is time to do our final steps:
    1. We recommend you keep SUPERAntiSpyware and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for scanning/removal of malware. Unless you purchase them, they provide no protection. They do not use any significant amount of resources ( except a little disk space ) until you run a scan.
    2. If we had you use ComboFix, uninstall ComboFix (This uninstall will only work as written if you installed ComboFix on your Desktop like we requested.)
      • Click START then RUN and enter the below into the run box and then click OK. Note the quotes are required
      • "%userprofile%\Desktop\combofix" /uninstall
        • Notes: The space between the combofix" and the /uninstall, it must be there.
        • This will uninstall ComboFix and also reset hidden files and folders settings back to Windows defaults.
    3. Go back to step 6 oof the READ ME and renable your Disk Emulation software with Defogger if you had disabled it.
    4. Any other miscellaneous tools we may have had you install or download can be uninstalled and deleted.
    5. If we had you download any registry patches like fixme.reg or fixWLK.reg (or any others), you can delete these files now.
    6. If running Vista or Win 7, it is time to make sure you have reenabled UAC by double clicking on the C:\MGtools\enableUAC.reg file and allowing it to be added to the registry.
    7. Go to add/remove programs and uninstall HijackThis.
    8. Goto the C:\MGtools folder and find the MGclean.bat file. Double click on this file to run this cleanup program that will remove files and folders
      related to MGtools and some other items from our cleaning procedures.
    9. After doing the above, you should work thru the below link:
     

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