HijackThis Log - help please

officialphotographer · Sep 20, 2009

Hi guys,

I am new to this forum, and this is my first post

My PC has started having some issues. Mostly copying over to external hard drives. I have optimized the USB's for performance and checked caching etc. It is real slow on all external hard drives. I just brought a new Western Digital 1TB My Book drive, and it has been as slow as a few kb's. Yip less than a Mb and up to 10Mb at fastest (although not often) usually hovers about 1.3mbs. Is there anything you can tell from the HijackThis log below that may be causing it? Also I have turned off some services using blackvipers recommendations, but used the safe settings.

Nod32 hasn't picked up anything and I regularly use these cleaning programs........ The Full Uniblue suite, CC Cleaner, Regcure, Toni Arts Easy Cleaner, Auslogics Boost Speed, and Max Registry cleaner. ............................ Could any of those screwed up something?

Here's my logfile

Any help would be most appreciated.
Also I am not very knowledgable so not to technical speak if possible. ;-),

Thanks in advance

TimW · Sep 20, 2009

Welcome to Major Geeks!

Please read ALL of this message including the notes before doing anything.

Pleases follow the instructions in the below link:

READ & RUN ME FIRST. Malware Removal Guide

and attach the requested logs when you finish these instructions.

**** If something does not run, write down the info to explain to us later but keep on going. ****

Do not assume that because one step does not work that they all will not. MGtools will frequently run even when all other tools will not.

After completing the READ & RUN ME and attaching your logs, make sure that you tell us what problems still remain ( if any still do )!

Helpful Notes:

If you run into problems trying to run the READ & RUN ME or any of the scans in normal boot mode, you can run the steps in safe boot mode but make sure you tell us what you did later when you post logs. See the below if you do not know how to boot in safe mode:

Starting your computer in Safe mode

If you have problems downloading on the problem PC, download the tools and the manual updates for SUPERAntiSpyware and Malwarebytes ( links are given in the READ & RUN ME) onto another PC and then burn to a CD. Then copy them to the problem PC. You will have to skip getting updates if (and only if) your internet connection does not work. Yes you could use a flash drive too but flash drives are writeable and infections can spread to them.

If you cannot seem to login to an infected user account, try using a different user account (if you have one) in either normal or safe boot mode and running only SUPERAntiSpyware and Malwarebytes while logged into this other user account. Then reboot and see if you can log into the problem user account. If you can then run SUPERAntiSpyware, Malwarebytes, ComboFix and MGtools on the infected account as requested in the instructions.

To avoid additional delay in getting a response, it is strongly advised that after completing the READ & RUN ME you also read this sticky:

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Any additional post is a bump which will add more delay. Once you attach the logs, your thread will be in the work queue and as stated our system works the oldest threads FIRST.

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