i've reach absolute hell

trend micro found 117 viruses however it couldnt delete them, because they are attached to processes being run currently.
ad-aware took out 41
spybot took out 600+ with 150 remaining, again because of attachments to files that the OS needs to run the basics.

no clue where to turn to
HSREMOVE caught 62
cwshredder removed tons
help...

 

just to follow up
avg - MANAGED FINALLY to "heal 226 out of 228" infections
now what that means, i have no clue...im assuming it's ok.
however, the Vault in AVG makes me wonder if i have to restore the file or not...because of the options "restore" "restore as"...
so if anyone can help me out here that'd be great.
Spybot is still having problems removing
-C2.lop
which are basically 4 gif files in my windows directory (4kb in size each)
-Altnet
which is in c:\windows\smdat32a.sys
i could post the spybot log...is that ok?

im seriously considering just reinstalling winXP on my friends computer...it's just such a pain and in the future who knows if everything will be fine after all this removal...

 

Chas'...initially my friend couldn't see her desktop, control panel on regular start-up.
But i got it to safe mode, ran ad-aware, spybot and it removed a few of those things, so between safemodew/network., and regular mode to do a few things there, i managed to get rid of some things...especially the firefox browser shaking...
...and tons of spyware over 800, plus 226 of 228 virus' in avg...
one trojan, trend couldn't take care of...now there's altnet to deal with in the registry and c2.log (4 gif images in windows) which wont just delete easily because they're being used by some other programs while in safe mode as well...so...i told her, gimme your xp cd, im doing a clean reinstall i think...better peace of mind...
...even if i removed this other stuff...just so much crap on it, it was insane...never seen anything like it...
it was so bad, that hjt analyze page wouldn't even take the text file, because of one R8 had about 35 of the same thing logitech/desktopmanager with some kind of attachment...

 

you scare me Chas'....you really do lol...yes those very lines.
However like i said, i wasn't too sure, without the analyze on the site and the analyze just wouldn't take it...until...i cut those lines out literally from the txt, then resubmitted them and then it worked, then i put back one of those lines to see what it would say and sure enough...take it out.
I am going to do a clean reinstall today and just protect the computer with everything
spywareblaster
spyguard
(she bought Norton a month ago...so i have to put that in...poor thing, with only 128RAM )
ad-aware
spybot
winpatrol
and not sure as to firewall, either, sp2 version
or im guessing Norton has its own.

 

Chas' funny you mentioned that, i was tellin my aunt as i was installing winxp about how you can get infected literally seconds after going online with a fresh install...anyways to make a long story short, i didn't right away, but i got avg running so far so good, no problems.
However I can't seem to get Ad-Aware update, it says the file can't be read, after 5%...any ideas?
I got AVG in place now and SpyGuard & Spywareblaster along with Winpatrol watching any start-ups and i think BHO's.
But the Ad-Aware thing is kinda scaring me here.

 

ooops ya i meant spywareguide
javacoolsoftware seems to have a lot of nice little proggies goin on...makes me wonder if they dont have spyware lol...
as for the ad-aware, thanks i did that, manually...i got a little worried b/c after installing winxp (clean reinstall w/formatting)...windows gave me 2 error pop-ups immediately (after registering online) something about registry errors and another one which i forgot...but i ran LexunREgScrub and it took out half of what windows said...so i got a lil' paranoid about the ad-aware update...
the other error message pop-up is lingering in the back of my mind...tryin to remember what it was...
...but i think it was windows' way of trying to sucker me into purchasing this program to fix it...because i went to the suggested reg-fixing site, thinking it was free, but of course it wasn't

 

LMAO...ya that...it was late (well a long day rather), i was tired...
Chas'...why'd I picture you like this when you typed that-> lol