Impossible to rid Vista of ad.yieldmanager.com!! Help!

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That's fine because we did not ask you to.

You have some of your terminology confused. MGtools does not install to your Destop. It will always install to the same location and that is the root folder of your Windows boot drive which for your is drive C.

What the READ ME requested is that you save the MGtools.exe file to C:\ which allows the program to run more reliably. If you cannot figure out how to do this, then just download MGtools.exe to your Desktop and run it from there. It will still install to the correct location which is a folder named C:\MGtools

Then attach the C:\MGlogs.zip file.

Make sure you have UAC disabled and have rebooted after disabling. And make sure you use Run As Administrator.

You also need to attach the requested log from SUPERAntiSpyware.

 

You still forgot to attach the requested log from SUPERAntiSpyware. Please attach it.

Note: You put MGtools.exe here. C:\My Download Files\MGtools.exe Which is definitely not where we want it. It ran OK but you should delete the above file now.

Also right click on the ComboFix program on your Desktop and rename it properly. You named it cf.exe.exe and it should be cf.exe

I'm not seeing any obvious reasons for your problems. I will give you a few things to do. Some of them will be steps to collect more info.

First a question! The below were just recently installed

Code:

"C:\Program Files\"
DREAMC~2      Apr 12 2008         "Dream Chronicles 2 - The Eternal Maze"
NATALI~1      Apr 12 2008         "Natalie Brooks - Secrets of Treasure House"

Are you sure these are not related to your problem?

Uninstall FireFox, then reboot and delete the folders for FireFox. Now download and install the current version of FireFox from: Mozilla Firefox

If you run Internet Explorer and click Tools and select Manage Addons, do you see anything that looks strange in the addons?

Run C:\MGtools\analyse.exe by double clicking on it. This is really HijackThis (select Do a system scan only) and select the following lines but DO NOT CLICK FIX until you exit all browser sessions including the one you are reading in right now:

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [QuickTime Task] "C:\Program Files\QuickTime\qttask.exe" -atboottime
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SunJavaUpdateSched] "C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_06\bin\jusched.exe"
O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {DFB852A3-47F8-48C4-A200-58CAB36FD2A2} - (no file)
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Spybot - Search & Destroy Configuration - {DFB852A3-47F8-48C4-A200-58CAB36FD2A2} - (no file)

After clicking Fix, exit HJT.

Now we need to use ComboFix to remove a bunch of malware files.

• Make sure that combofix.exe that you downloaded while doing the READ & RUN ME is on your Desktop but Do not run it!
  • If it is not on your Desktop, the below will not work.
• Open Notepad and copy/paste the text in the below quote box into it:

• Save the above as CFscript.txt and make sure you save it to the same location (should be on your Desktop) as ComboFix.exe
• At this point, you MUST EXIT ALL BROWSERS NOW before continuing!
• You should have both the ComboFix.exe and CFScript.txt icons on your Desktop.
• Now use your mouse to drag CFscript.txt on top of ComboFix.exe
• Follow the prompts.
• When it finishes, a log will be produced named c:\combofix.txt
• I will ask for this log below

Note:

Do not mouseclick combofix's window while it is running. That may cause it to stall.

Copy the bold text below to notepad. Save it as fixme.reg to your desktop. Be sure the "Save as" type is set to "all files" Once you have saved it double click it and allow it to merge with the registry.

Make sure that you tell me if you receive a success message about adding the above
to the registry. If you do not get a success message, it definitely did not work.

Now run this: RogueRemover Free Did it find and remove anything?

Now run Ccleaner!

Now run the C:\MGtools\GetLogs.bat file by double clicking on it.

Then attach the below logs:

• C:\ComboFix.txt
• C:\MGlogs.zip

Make sure you tell me how things are working now!