Koobface virus?

Lydster · Oct 1, 2012

Hello there! A friend starting having problems with a slow system and unresponsive IE, so she called HP and they hooked her up with MS who said that their assessment was that she had the Koobface virus, and they would sell her (at $43 each) something like 6 different applications to fix it.

Needless to say, she came to me instead. I've run everything in READ AND RUN ME FIRST. Attached are the logs. During the scans, I didn't see anything about Koobface, at least not by that name. After MBAM and SuperAntispyware found their stuff (sorry, I can't attach the SAS log because I uninstalled the program and deleted logs/quarantine before I got the log to send you), TDSS and HitmanPro were both clean.

Please let me know what you see. Thanks!

Kestrel13! · Oct 1, 2012

and they hooked her up with MS who said that their assessment was that she had the Koobface virus
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Wow..... I am not seeing any malware in those logs.

Lydster · Oct 2, 2012

Well that's cool. As I said, MBAM and SAS both found some stuff, but everything after that came back clean. Computer seems to be working fine now, so I guess that's that, unless you have some other ideas. Thanks.

Kestrel13! · Oct 2, 2012

As long as all is running well then you can follow the below steps, if not, you should let me know.

If you are not having any other malware problems, it is time to do our final steps:

We recommend you keep SUPERAntiSpyware and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for scanning/removal of malware. Unless you purchase them, they provide no protection. They do not use any significant amount of resources ( except a little disk space ) until you run a scan.

If we had you use ComboFix, uninstall ComboFix (This uninstall will only work as written if you installed ComboFix on your Desktop like we requested.)

Click START then RUN and enter the below into the run box and then click OK. Note the quotes are required

"%userprofile%\Desktop\combofix" /uninstall

Notes: The space between the combofix" and the /uninstall, it must be there.

This will uninstall ComboFix and also reset hidden files and folders settings back to Windows defaults.

Go back to step 4 of the READ ME and renable your Disk Emulation software with Defogger if you had disabled it.

Any other miscellaneous tools we may have had you install or download can be uninstalled and deleted.

If we had you download any registry patches like fixme.reg or fixWLK.reg (or any others), you can delete these files now.

If running Vista, it is time to make sure you have reenabled UAC by double clicking on the C:\MGtools\enableUAC.reg file and allowing it to be added to the registry.

Go to add/remove programs and uninstall HijackThis.

Goto the C:\MGtools folder and find the MGclean.bat file. Double click on this file to run this cleanup program that will remove files and folders
related to MGtools and some other items from our cleaning procedures.

If you are running Win 7, Vista, Windows XP or Windows ME, do the below:

Refer to the cleaning procedures pointed to by step 6 of the READ ME
for your Window version and see the instructions to Disable System Restore which will flush your Restore Points.

Then reboot and Enable System Restore to create a new clean Restore Point.

After doing the above, you should work thru the below link:

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Koobface virus?

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Attached Files:

HitmanPro_20121001_1526.log

mbam-log-2012-10-01 (14-53-27).txt

MGlogs.zip

RKreport[1].txt

TDSSKiller.2.8.10.0_01.10.2012_15.13.39_log.txt

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