help me please, some sort of "dropper" trojan

I was downloading some emulators, and the next thing I knew AVG pops up with this stuff about a "dropper" trojan. So I googled it, and one of the places I landed was here. Everywhere I read were horror stories of the virus screwing up people's pc's when they rebooted, at the time it showed the exact name of the virus, but I forgot. I have no removable media (i.e., cd's, dvd's) to backup my important files on, so i'd rather not reformat if I don't have to. So anyway, I rebooted, and sure enough, it's all gone to hell. I am not able to run IE, I have no taskbar (so I can't run regedit or anything), so I was luckily able to run this mozilla firefox to access the internet for help. I'm way out of my league here, I thought I would never find a virus that could defeat me cause I'm a novice programmer, well this has been a humbling experience . Everything I try doesn't work, the system restore points are infected, and even when I reboot in safe mode, I STILL can't delete some Roxio files that I should be able to that apparently are infected. Anyway, I scanned with a couple of freeware AV programs, but I still have no taskbar, and IE still won't work. If anyone can help me I would be greatly indebted, I don't know if I need to d/l certain programs and post a log like I've noticed other people have done here when browsing the forums. I browsed when I got this virus, but since I rebooted and the URL for the forum for my exact virus is still in IE from when I googled it, and I can't run IE, I can't find that forum .


Anyway, if anyone can help please do, and I'll do whatever I can to repay the favor, this really sucks


thanks,

Ash

 

Hi ash11001!
Welcome to Major Geeks!

Try the following. If necessary, you can download the programs on another computer and transfer them. Why don't you have any removeable media? Do you not have the cd's or flash drive? Or do you not have the burner and usb ports?

Run this utility:

After you finish, please continue with the instructions in the READ & RUN ME FIRST and attach the requested logs.

If you're not able to do any of the above, please tell me.

abri

 

Thanks for the response, I apologize for my "i'm a novice programmer" comment earlier, I don't know what that has to do with knowing how to get rid of a virus, I guess I meant that if I can write basic programs that I know the basics of getting rid of one, because I've done it countless times before with no problem, but this virus is different. I was drunk when I made that first post, I didn't mean to post drunk, but I didn't expect this to happen, heh.

Anyway, I was hoping you could tell me the name of the log file Combofix creates? I ran it, and it said something about "make sure all other windows are closed, then press "y" to proceed", so I did....it said it found "side surfer" or something like that, and I'm assuming it took care of it...but then after a few more minutes the window dissappeared and it was only my windows desktop showing, and nothing happened for a good 15 min afterwards, so finally I CTRL-ALT-DELTED to reboot.

I also didn't ever click inside the window, but I did however use ALT-TAB to go from my firefox window to the window that was running combofix, I don't know if that's the same thing. I will try it again, making sure to close all windows first, then run it. Also, I will try those instructions you posted, but I was hoping in the meantime you could tell me where this logfile will be located?

Thanks again,

Ash

 

Oh yes, I almost forgot, I have the equipment to burn DVD/CD's, I just can't afford any blank ones at the moment.

--Ash

 

Hey, I am reading in that file and I now see that C:\ will have the log file, so please disregard my earlier question

 

Hi ash!
Did you find it?
abri