Personal Guard 2009

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by spiderancy, Nov 1, 2009.

  1. spiderancy

    spiderancy Private E-2

    I need to know if this is a legit program....it seems linked to windows security center, but it seems to be hindering SAS from running , I cant change settings on it....I keep getting a message lower right from security center that it is not running and it says it should be...all kinds of weird stuff.....I did not install it!!!
     
  2. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    It is a malware infection.


    Please download and run the below tool named rkill (courtesy of BleepingComputer.com) which may help allow other programs to run.

    There are 4 different versions. If one of them won't run then download and try to run the other one.

    Vista and Win7 users need to right click and choose Run as Administrator

    You only need to get one of them to run, not all of them. You may get warnings from your antivirus about this tool, ignore them or shutdown your antivirus.
    1. Rkill.exe
    2. Rkill.com
    3. Rkill.scr
    4. Rkill.pif
    Once you've gotten one of them to run then try to immediately run the following.


    Now download and Run exeHelper from Raktor
    • Please download exeHelper to your desktop.
    • Double-click on exeHelper.com to run the fix.
    • A black window should pop up, press any key to close once the fix is completed.
    • A log file named log.txt will be created in the directory where you ran exeHelper.com
    • Attach the log.txt file to your next message.
    Note: If the window shows a message that says "Error deleting file", please re-run the program before posting a log - and post the two logs together (they will both be in the one file).

    Now run this: Using Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

    Now run this: Using MGtools


    Now you need to attach (See: HOW TO: Attach Items To Your Post ) the below logs created while running the above scans
    • exeHelper log
    • Malwarebytes Anti-Malware log
    • MGlogs.zip - normally it is C:\MGlogs.zip - only attach this log from MGtools.exe DO NOT attach any logs seen in the MGtools folder.
     
  3. spiderancy

    spiderancy Private E-2

    I was able to do a system restore and all appears to be normal again...see no traces of PG 2009 left...Malwarebytes scan was clean........if you think I should still go through your procedure I will....I do thank you for the quik post.......you guys are great!!!
     
  4. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    It's up to you what you wish to do. Our experience has shown that if you use system restore, you may get around the problems caused by the malware but you don't necessarily removed the malware. If you really want to be sure, the previous procedure I gave no longer applies but the below does:

    READ & RUN ME FIRST. Malware Removal Guide
     

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