Have run Read and Run Me First and now need help...

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by Debbeas, Feb 10, 2008.

  1. Debbeas

    Debbeas Private E-2

    Hi, this is my first thread and I have never attempted anything like this before. My daughter is an msn fiend and keeps getting sent these "do I look dumb in this pic" messages. Although she assures me she hasn't clicked on any of the links (!), Windows Defender found win32/PossibleHostsFileHijack the other day. It says it has cleaned it and has not found it again. The problem I am having is that several times a day my mouse freezes and then the cursor seems to have been taken over, it always goes straight to start, control panel, remote access, at this point I switch off pc. I have run everything you suggest and attach the files. Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
     

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  2. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    Let's do a few things:

    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.
    Now download The Avenger by Swandog469, and save it to your Desktop.

    * Extract avenger.exe from the Zip file and save it to your desktop
    * Run avenger.exe by double-clicking on it.
    * Check the 'Input script manually' box.
    * Click on the magnifying glass icon.
    * Copy everything in the Quote box below, and paste it in the box that opens:

    * Now click the 'Done' button.
    * Click on the traffic light icon and OK the prompt.
    * You will be prompted to restart, OK the prompt and your PC should reboot, if not, reboot it yourself.
    * A log file from Avenger will be produced at C:\avenger.txt

    Download HostsXpert and then follow the below steps.

    * Unzip HostsXpert.zip
    * It will create a folder named HostsXpert in whatever folder you extract it to.
    * Run HostsXpert.exe by double clicking on it.
    * click the Make Writeable? button.
    * click Restore Microsoft's Hosts File and then click OK.
    * Click the X to exit the program.

    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 by running this and also attach the log from Avenger.

    Be sure to tell us how things are running.
     
  3. Debbeas

    Debbeas Private E-2

    Hi, thanks so much for your assistance. Have got to the stage of running HostsXpert.exe but don't have a Make Writeable? button, something has appeared that says "This is a sample HOSTS file" and there is a Make ReadOnly? button. What should I do now? Help!!
     
  4. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    Tell me exactly what you did ....you unzipped it to a folder ...double clicked the HostsXpert.exe ....and there was no make writeable button? Is there not a button for "Restore MS hosts file"? You need to click on that.
     
  5. Debbeas

    Debbeas Private E-2

    Hi, thanks again, new logs attached from Avenger and MG - pc running very slowly, has taken me best part of an hour just to do HostsXpert download and run MGtools.
     

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  6. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member


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