Malware removal help

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by TIMMAAY, Feb 24, 2009.

  1. TIMMAAY

    TIMMAAY Private E-2

    I have read and tried everything in the RUN and READ ME and I am still having problems.

    I was watching an Msn video and Avira Antivir warned me of two trojans. One is TR/Dropper.Gen and the other is TR.Spy.ZBot.ngy I moved the threats to the quarantine and proceeded to try and run Spy Bot. Spy bot wouldn't run so I knew something was up.

    I then followed the Run and Read me guide word for word but it won't let me run any of the removal programs. (Spy bot S&D, Malwarebytes, etc.) I have tried renaming the files but that didn't help either. An Antivir scan comes up empty.

    The only thing that I think could have caused this is a program I downloaded from download.com for my computer graphics class.

    Please help.
     
  2. TIMMAAY

    TIMMAAY Private E-2

    I looked for the TDSserv and could not find it.

    Also when I tried the MGtools link again, the page said that I needed to log into majorgeeks. But, it won't let me log in. So I can't run that either.
     
  3. TIMMAAY

    TIMMAAY Private E-2

    I realize that posting in my own thread will only hurt me but, I'd rather have all the current info so I don't waste your time or mine.

    Anyway, I got the Mgtools to run. ;) I used IE instead of Firefox and it let me sign in an install it. Here is the zipfile.
     

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  4. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    Please use add./remove programs to uninstall Wildtangent Games

    Click Start > Control Panel > System > Hardware > Device Manager > View > Show Hidden Devices.

    * Scroll down to “Non-plug and Play Drivers” and click the plus icon to open those drivers.
    * Then search for TDSSserv.sys
    * Let me know if you find this or not.
    * If you do find it, right click on it, and select Disable. Do not try to uninstall it.
    * Also if this is found and you disable it, then reboot and see if you can run the other scans that would not run.
     
  5. TIMMAAY

    TIMMAAY Private E-2

    Thank you for your response. I uninstalled all the wildtangent games.
    I did what you said and searched for the TDSSserv.sys and it wasn't there.
     
  6. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    Have you tried running the scans in safe mode? ( And if I recall....you are allowing ALL users to have admin. privileges. NOT a good idea.) You may need to try running them on each user profile.
     
  7. TIMMAAY

    TIMMAAY Private E-2

    Ok, I just tried running the scans on all the different users. In safemode and regular. The scans still won't run.
     
  8. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    Does avira run? Can you get a log from it? Do you have a scanner attached?
     
  9. TIMMAAY

    TIMMAAY Private E-2

    Yes avira can run. Here is the log.
     

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  10. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    That log shows no infections. What issues are you still having?
     
  11. TIMMAAY

    TIMMAAY Private E-2

    None, now that I did a factory restore. I just forget it, saved a few important documents and restored it. Before I couldn't run any other scanners and both firefox and IE weren't working. Thank you for your time. I'm sorry we couldn't get rid of it the easy way.
     
  12. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    No problem....good to know you are up and running. Safe surfing. :)
     

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