Need help!

Discussion in 'Malware Help - MG (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by achilles7401, Oct 20, 2004.

  1. achilles7401

    achilles7401 Private E-2

    A few weeks ago I had a nasty spyware problem. I managed to rid myself of most of it, aside of CATLEvents, which hung around but didn't really cause any problems. But the past few days some odd things have been going on. Whenver I start up my computer, I have about a good 20-30 minutes before my Internet Explorer stops working. It will either go nowhere, and flash something at the bottom quickly about WINDOWS32 (too quick for me to read), or it will throw a ///%20 in front of the address I type in. My internet connection is still good and I stay signed on to AIM. After a few hours, my AIM will sign off, saying something about error 1 or 8. Anyone?
     
    achilles7401, Oct 20, 2004
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  2. PhilliePhan

    PhilliePhan Guest

    PhilliePhan, Oct 20, 2004
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  3. achilles7401

    achilles7401 Private E-2

    I have done all that is mentioned fairly recently (about a month ago). I will try again and post what happened, but its getting increasingly difficult as I only have a short window to access the internet. I will try to print out the instructions from another computer and give them a go. I can tell you that I've done most of what's asked (system restore, ad-aware, etc.) but to no avail...
     
    achilles7401, Oct 20, 2004
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  4. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    A month is a long time in the malware world. Many of the programs to fix problems have updated multiple times in a month. You need to update. Also malware itself evolves and changed significantly in a month.

    20 or 30 minutes is a reasonable amount of time to perform updates if you are on a Cable or DSL connection. If you are on dial-up, getting all the updates in that time frame will be difficult.

    If you really cannot get the items from the READ ME tutorial, just download the current Hijack This and then exit all browser sessions (including the one you are reading in right now) and run a scan. Save the log to a .txt file instead of the default .log file and post it back here as an attachment to your message.
     
    chaslang, Oct 20, 2004
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  5. smedley

    smedley Private E-2

    download and use CWshredder from major geeks you may have a browser hijacker
     
    smedley, Oct 20, 2004
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  6. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Smedley,

    Please read our stickies. In particular: http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=35407

    We already requested that to be run in the tutorial.
     
    chaslang, Oct 20, 2004
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