Hijacker caled sbycor

Discussion in 'Malware Help - MG (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by Bone, Aug 19, 2004.

  1. Bone

    Bone Private E-2

    Hey guys, im new to this forum but i am losing my mind and dont know where to go. Let me quickly explain, i eas on yahoo earlier then all the sudden my IE came up (i was on aol) and sent me to a page with all text and the text was in a foreign language. page after page kept coming up and i couldnt stop it. finally it stopped when a windows box came up and said that one or more files in xp has been corrupted and to put in my xp disk to fix it, i thought is was a scam to get me to put my disk in for whatever reason so i did not. A little while later i had a box xome up with all question marks. My homepage on IE is now sbycor.com. I had a file on this computer with spybot, ad-aware, cwshredder and a few othe files as well as having them in my start menu options but thye all disapeared and when i try adn DL them again it says i cannot because the computer cannot read them. What do you guys think, by morning i bet this computer ends up on the highway. Any help would be appreciated. By the way i cannot DL anything.
     
  2. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Physically disconnect from the internet and reboot in safe mode. Now try to run Ad-aware, SpyBot & CWShredder and any other tools (like virus scan etc) you have. Reset your Web settings too while in safemode:

    Reset Web Settings by opening Internet Explorer (note you should get a failed connection because there is no internet connection). Then click Tools, Internet Options, Programs, and click the Reset Web Settings button. Then go back to the General tab and set your home page back to what you like (i.e., www.majorgeeks.com).

    Now reboot normal mode with your internet connection re-connected.
     
  3. Bone

    Bone Private E-2

    Hey guys, I recently posted a question about my hijacker, i am still pretty screwed, i cannot figure this out, for some reason i cannot DL anyhting to help me repair these things and all my old DLs like spybot, cwshredder and so on have dissapeared since this hole thing has taken over, when i try and DL cwshredder it says that i cannot read the files, the only thing i can kind of see is that on this web page (major geeks) it says on the bottm left that vb and everything is on but it says that HTML is off. I dont know what is going on but any help would be appreciated. I am losing it.
     
  4. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Since you appear to be ignoring my message (you gave no response or feedback to it). I'll ignore yours too until you decide to respond with some feedback on what I last asked you to do.
     
    Last edited: Aug 20, 2004
  5. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    When you boot up your computer in safe mode with networking? Can you do any downloading?
    Try something other than a virus scan or spyware scan application. Try this for example (ProcessExplorer): http://www.sysinternals.com/files/procexpnt.zip

    If you can download in safe mode try getting some of the applications you need and then install them and run them.

    If you have problems with any of this, hit CTRL-ALT-DEL to bring up Task Manager and look for anything strange that can be shutdown. Note: here is a list of some normal items:
    C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
    C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
    C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
    C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
    C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
    C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
    C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
    C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE

    Shutdown anything strange and retry some downloading and scanning.
     

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