Malware 17Pholmes, want to format to clean

The infecting malware is "17pholmes1001186.exe" and "mrofinu1001186".
I got a call from my intenet provider sayign that unsolicited e-mail was being sent from my IP address too. I think I got it in the last 4-5 days possibly through a torrent or watching embeded video if thats possible.

I have used the "read and run me first" thread before to remove malware and it worked a treat. However this time I just want to back up all my music, videos and uni work onto a new extrenal hard drive; then completley format both internal hard drives and start a fresh (install all programs new, including anti-virus and firewalls). My main concern is re-infecting my computer and infecting the other computer in our home network.


Here is my plan:

1. Back up all my music (about 40GB), movies (about 40GB), documents and the intsall files of some downloaded programs.

2. Format both internal drives from XP home disc and update with the sp2 disc from Microsoft

3. Intstall AVG and some other protection before I start accessing the music and movies off the extrenal hard drive

4. Hopefully live malware free from now on

So here are my questions,

1. What are some quick ways to back up large folders onto an external drive?
2. How can I format both drives on my computer at once? (2 physically seperate drives, no partitions)
3. How do I prevent the Malware from getting onto the external hard drive and re-infecting after the format? Should I clean the best I can before I start backing up?


Thanks in advance for any help given, and many more thanks for the help already recieved!

 

Thanks for the help, Ive ran the "read and run me first" thread and all went to plan except for that super anti-spyware which would not intstall (nor will avg).

The files are still turning up in the processes list!

I'm currently running kaspersky at home and will post all the required logs when I get back home.

I'm pretty keen to get rid of this before I back-up and format.

 

I was trying to say that SAS wouldn't install or run and that AVG won't install either.

I ended up running kaspersky virus remover and It got rid of "17pholmes1001186.exe" and "mrofinu1001186" but also stopped explorer from loading and killed nero.

It found win32/virut though and from what I've read this can infect executable files easlily. So I scanned the external hard-drive that I backed up all my documents with (with AVG on another computer) and it found that the win32/virut had infected about20 .exe files that I used ages back to install some programs, including nero. I then used AVG to remove these infected .exe files.

Will it be okay start using the external hard drive on my now reformatted system without win32/virut comming back? I have installed and updated AVG and PC tools firewall plus.

By processes list I meant when you view running processes thru ctrl+alt+delete

Sorry if this is a bit vague.

Cheers

 

I scanned the external hard drive using BitDefender and attached the log. I hope it worked, I could only save it as a .html I then went and changed the file extension to .txt

When I scan the external hard drive with AVG it keeps finding the win32/virut in the restore points of system volume information folder of the drive. Is there anyway I can turn this restore off? Or will deleting them do the trick?

I meant the "17pholmes1001186.exe" and "mrofinu1001186", but these seem to be dealt with now.