How do I get rid of HSA, SW?

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by SurfGal, Mar 7, 2006.

  1. SurfGal

    SurfGal Private E-2

    Can someone please help me? I have run spybot ad aware and others but nothing has gotten rid of the Home Search Assitent, Shopping Wizard and Search Extender. Oh and I even have some svchost stuff that keeps coming up.

    I have Windows Me and use FireFox.
    This is the hijack this log,

    Edit by chaslang: Inline log attached
     

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    Last edited by a moderator: Mar 8, 2006
  2. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Welcome to Majorgeeks!

    Please do not post any logs inline. Also before we look at HijackThis logs, standard cleaning procedures must be followed. HijackThis logs do not show all problems that a PC could have. It is not a malware scanning tool. You also must not use msconfig to control startups. This will be mention later in the procedures when you look at the link for installing and running HijackThis.

    Please follow our standard cleaning procedures which are necessary for us to provide you support. Also there are steps included for installing, running, and posting HijackThis logs as attachments.

    - Run ALL the steps in this Sticky thread READ & RUN ME FIRST Before Asking for Support

    Make sure you check version numbers and get all updates.

    - Very Important: Make sure you tell us the results from running the tutorial...was anything found? Were you unable to complete any of the scans?...Were you unable to download any of the tools?...Did you do the on-line scans as suggested? etc.


    After doing ALL of the above you still have a problem make sure you have booted to normal mode and run the steps in the below link to properly use HijackThis and attach a log:

    Downloading, Installing, and Running HijackThis


    When you return to make your next post, make sure you attach the following logs and that you have run these scans in the following order too (these scans are covered in steps 6 & 7 of the READ & RUN ME sticky)
    • Bitdefender
    • Panda Scan
    • HijackThis
    After you complete all of the above and attach the 3 requested logs, we will be able to finish cleaning your malware problems.


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  3. SurfGal

    SurfGal Private E-2

    Sorry for not reading the sticky posts first.
    Looking at it all it's so confusing and I get lost somewhere along the way. There are so many steps and always places I can't find on my computer. I did A LOT of searching and trying everything I found online and nothing worked. I have no idea what files are good and what are bad as I don't know much about computers. I've checked many lists and nothing bad that I have found was on my log, however, these problems still show up. The last time I tried to get rid of something I thought was bad my whole computer was messed up and needed to be taken in. Spybot, Ad aware, NA, etc, none of them have helped so I figured I was missing something.
     
  4. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    The READ ME looks long but there is a just a lot of text in there explaining things to you. Just follow it one step at a time from beginning to step 7. Do not jump around. It leads you by the hand and hundreds of novices do it each week. You do not need to delete anything on your own. Just fix allow the scanners to fix what they find and post the logs at the end. We will give step by step instructions afterwards to fix remaining problems. Running the scans will make final cleanup more complete and easier. Without doing them, more problems can still be hiding in your computer.
     

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