malware removal unsuccessful

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by youzer, Aug 15, 2008.

  1. youzer

    youzer Private E-2

    hello, Im a new user of this site (obviously) I followed instructions on malware removal... I havent finished it yet because 1st: spybot couldnt get rid of a "SpywareBot" thingy, and 2nd: Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware crashed and wont start again. it crashed after a scan which found several bad things. I'm sorry but i cant attach the log because, upon clicking "remove checked items" (or something like that), it crashed and wouldnt re-open. I then opened the task manager and ended it.. but every time i try to reopen it it says that it is already running.
    by the way, at the end of the log, it said everything was successfully fixed -this is at the same time the program crashed.. so i dont really believe it.
    if someone could help me out there i would really appreciate it. thanks
     
  2. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    Were you able to run ComboFix? If you please attach the log.

    Where you able to run MGTools.exe? If so please attach the log (C:\MGLogs.zip).

    Reboot if it is still showing MalwareBytes as still running.
     
  3. youzer

    youzer Private E-2

    Hi TimW,
    yes. I rebooted and did everything else on the list.
    after running everything, I rebooted again and managed to reopen Malwerebytes' Anti-Malware. I clicked on the quarantine tab and saw 6 or 7 malware items that had evidently been quarantined, a couple of these were SpywareBot things. so I removed them all. then i ran another scan and nothing showed up. Then I ran SpyBotsd again and nothing showed up.

    some other strange things have happened. when I look at My Computer, I'm seeing icons for 2 DVD Drives (F: and G: ) that dont exist, and that havent shown up before. also, before running ComboFix, I wanted to back up some files, but when i tried to burn a DVD, it didnt work and the changed from a DVD-RW Drive to a CD-RW Drive. it thought the blank DVD was a CD and could not burn to it.

    Please check out the attached logs.

    thanks
     

    Attached Files:

    Last edited: Aug 16, 2008
  4. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    Not sure but either SpyBot S&D or Combo may have removed something they shouldn't have.....check your Qoobox folder and reinstall :
    ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers-MacDrive Volume Icons.reg.dat"

    Then use windows explorer to find and delete:
    C:\WINDOWS\system32\winhcfga.ini
    C:\Documents and Settings\mg\Local Settings\Application Data\Installer3436
    C:\Documents and Settings\mg\Local Settings\Application Data\Installer2064

    I am not seeing any malware......tell me how things are running.
     

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