please someone save me from my computer torment

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by charmed one, Jan 3, 2007.

  1. charmed one

    charmed one Private E-2

    i dont know where to start, bought a scanner,copier fax, went to put the software on the computer, has only accepted the scanner and printer side, so doing a clean up. (computer is also running really slow) On clean up it is scanning through heaps of movies on one of my files ( I have never downloaded a movie), cannot find them anywhere on my computer. Also while looking i found lots of files that my computer does not recognise.I cannot delete them cause it says that some one is using/sharing the file. I need help. please
     
    Last edited: Jan 3, 2007
  2. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Welcome to Majorgeeks!

    To work out what maybe happening with your PC and if its related to malware, we will need yo uto run the below guide and attach the requested logs.

    Do you have any peer2peer software installed on your PC at all, eg. Limewire, Ares, Bittorrent etc?

    Please follow our standard cleaning procedures which are necessary for us to provide you support. Also there are steps included for installing, running, and posting HijackThis logs as attachments.
    • Run ALL the steps in this Sticky thread READ & RUN ME FIRST Before Asking for Support
    • Make sure you check version numbers and get all updates.
    • Very Important: Make sure you tell us the results from running the tutorial...was anything found? Were you unable to complete any of the scans?...Were you unable to download any of the tools?...Did you do the on-line scans as suggested? etc.
    • After doing ALL of the above you still have a problem make sure you have booted to normal mode and run the steps in the below link to properly use HijackThis and attach a log:
    Downloading, Installing, and Running HijackThis

    Make sure you also rename HijackThis.exe as suggested in the procedures. Use analyse.exe for the new name. This is very important due to some new infections going around.

    • When you return to make your next post, make sure you attach the following logs and that you have run these scans in the following order too:
      • CounterSpy
      • AVG Antispyware log - ONLY IF NEEDED you were not able to run CounterSpy
      • Bitdefender - from step 6
      • Panda Scan - from step 6
      • runkeys.txt - the log from GetRunKey.bat
      • newfiles.txt - the log from ShowNew.bat
      • HijackThis
    NOTE: You can only attach 3 files in a single message so it will require that you use two messages to attach all of these logs!
     

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