Help... I get the feeling something very bad is on my system

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by hayaku, Jan 3, 2006.

  1. hayaku

    hayaku Private E-2

    Ok. This is really strange... just the other day I started up my computer and something was very wrong. Windows was constantly crashing, internet was refusing to connect, and I was getting pop up banners everywhere. Literally the night before it was running totally fine, and come the morning of the next day when I turned it on everything was in a mess.

    So far I have worked long and hard to fix things, but I have only got so far. I identified one of the problems as CoolWebSearch and killed it with CWShredder, and Microsoft Antispyware found and removed a password stealer, but that seems only to be the tip of the iceberg. I have found a whole stack of processes in startup with msconfig (kargo.exe, typeconf.exe, idemlog.exe, ssweeper.exe, init32.exe to name a few) that I have so far been able to disable but not find or remove.

    Furthermore, something seems to be messing with SpyBot - Search & Destroy, the first time I ran it, it picked up about 8 infections in the first 20 seconds after which it promptly froze. Every time I have tried to run it since, it never finds anything and takes a LONG time to do it. For example, certain searches like 643/32961: Central24 and 727/32961: Comload it will hover on for maybe 30-40 seconds each, when normally it would skip through them so fast you would never be able to read them in the first place. This continues throughout the search and all in all the whole thing takes over an hour when it should only take a few minutes. I think something is messing with it.

    Add-Aware finds nothing, neither does my anti virus scanner (Vet antivirus). And on top of everything, it has disabled my internet connection. I have Cable broadband that connects through a router. The three other computers connected to the router are functioning fine, and my own connection to the router appears so be totally healthy, yet my ISP login program refuses to log me on. I do not thing this is any kind of coincidence... I get the feeling maybe whatever I have might be trying to leech bandwidth and could be causing problems with my connection this way.

    I would like to post my hijack this log with a moderators permission, I have tried everything else but it seems that whatever I have isn't going away easily, at least until I can identify it. Thanks.
     
  2. bjgarrick

    bjgarrick MajorGeeks Admin - Malware Expert

  3. hayaku

    hayaku Private E-2

    yes, I have completed all the steps, with the exception of Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool, BitDefender and Panda Active scan due to the simple fact that I physically cannot connect to the internet on the affected computer, almost certainly as direct resault of the infection.

    here is the hijack this log:
     

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  4. bjgarrick

    bjgarrick MajorGeeks Admin - Malware Expert

    Download FixWareout by Lonny and save it to your Desktop.
    • Please locate your download of FixWareout and INSTALL it.
    • Be sure that Run fixit is checked.
    • Click Finish to begin the fix.
    • Follow the prompts and Reboot when asked to do so.
    • Upon Reboot, follow the prompts and HijackThis should open.
    When HJT opens, scan with HJT and have it fix the below entries:

    After you complete the above, reboot into Safe Mode and run the fix again, then reboot and attach a fresh HJT log.
     
  5. hayaku

    hayaku Private E-2

    thanks alot... I'll do that right away. One more thing though... I have since realsied it was probably a good idea to re enable the startup processes I had previously disabled before posting my hijack this log... anyway, I have just enabled them all again and made another log. I am sorry... it was very stupid on my part. Sorry for any inconvenience.

    this is the new log, with the disabled processes re enabled.
     

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  6. hayaku

    hayaku Private E-2

    Ok, followed the instructions... I am fairly sure that at least got rid of WareOut. The other stuff, however.....

    anyway, here are the logs...
     

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  7. bjgarrick

    bjgarrick MajorGeeks Admin - Malware Expert

    I have just completed the new fix for wareout, so please follow the thread below...

    Wareout Removal...
     

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