During the Read and Run me First steps...

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by sephiroth_98, Mar 16, 2008.

  1. sephiroth_98

    sephiroth_98 Private E-2

    I am cleaning out my computer, seeing that i just detected a trojan (unknown), yazzle adware and some hijacking stuff. Going through the steps of "the read me first" guide, i hit a situation where i am not sure if i did it correctly. When i was running the SuperAntiSpyware software and detected these 11 threats, it asked me to reboot. fine. but they kept the files in quarantine. Are they suppose to remain in quarantine or am i suppose to delete them from my system? Why i ask is that when i will need to repeat these checklist steps, one of the first is to "clear all quarantine anti-spy and anti-virus software". Something just feels redundant. Kindly explain if this step has been done properly or if i need to backtrack and fix something up.

    Thanks,

    Sephiroth
     
    sephiroth_98, Mar 16, 2008
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  2. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    You're fine....just carry on with the instructions and attach the requested logs. We'll sort out your quarantine files later.
     
    TimW, Mar 17, 2008
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  3. sephiroth_98

    sephiroth_98 Private E-2

    So to finish off the check list, here are the file logs of the necessary scans and actions.

    Please advise if i need to do more or if everything is fine.

    thanks every so much.

    Sephiroth
     

    Attached Files:

    sephiroth_98, Mar 17, 2008
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  4. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    I'm not seeing any malware....are you still having problems?
     
    TimW, Mar 17, 2008
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  5. sephiroth_98

    sephiroth_98 Private E-2

    No problems? nice! The last time i attempted to clean out my computer, the trojan wasnt taken care of and Avast picked it up a few days later. I guess i had some concern because of the quarantine issue: do the infected files stay in the SAS's (supeantispyware) quarantine section forever? if so, what do i do when i need to scan and clean house again? will i then ask SAS to remove the quarantine files?

    Other than that, all is good and thank you TimW for all of your help.

    Sephiroth
     
    sephiroth_98, Mar 17, 2008
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  6. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    You should be able to just open SASpyware and click on quarantine and then there should be an option to empty/delete the folder/files ...or you can do nothing. ;)

    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.
    You can delete the C:\MGtools folder and the C:\MGtools.exe file. You can also delete the C:\MGlogs.zip.

    And you are welcome. :)
     
    TimW, Mar 17, 2008
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