New member - trojan.smitfraud/Bloodhound unfection - help please

Hello all,

I sure could use some help. I'm running XP Home, Dell 4600... desktop is hijacked - no start button, no start menu, nothing. Internet Explorer will not start nor will explorer.ex and several other windows programs. I can surf fine in Foxfire and outlook express works ok.

Virus software keeps saying I have bloodhound.w32.ep infected the wininet.dll file. I tried a safe mode boot and virus removal, tried to delete the file and replace it, tried some sort of restore module thing (I forget the proper name).. to no avail.

Following a post from earlier this month(8/6 it started), I have attached my hijacck this log file. Please review and reply with any tips. Thank you so ever much!

 

Thank you for the reply.

I am not sure if these are the same viruses or not, but it seems that I might have Bloodhound.w32.ep (Symantec's name) and/or trojan.spy.html.smitfraud.c.

I have an infected/corrupted wininet.dll file, my desktop is blank except for the "warning you have smitfraud" image, and I cannot run iexplore.exe or explorer.exe (files not found). I have to activate program through Windows Task Manager.

I followed bjgarricks' instructions exactly as he posted to ConfortablyNumb on 8/4-8/6 (thread 69222) - he had a very similar situation. I ran a hijackthis report, cleaned using trend micro and ewido... I jumped in and out or safe mode - just as all his instructions state. I still have the same above problems.

Attached is a fresh HJT log file and the report from the Ewido scan.

I appreciate anybody's good help!
DL