PumHijackHo AGAIN, and it's not a change i made.

Hi everyone, i battled this thing in the past and got rid of it for awhile after i used DBAN and reinstalled. After another reinstall without wiping the drive with DBAN it's back.

Let me explain what procedure i follow after reinstalling, after i get through the formatting the drive part and adding drivers from a dvd that was burnt for me on a clean computer, i download Avast , Malwarebytes and Firefox immediately before going online which are also on that dvd to get all windows updates.

Since PUMHIJACKHO has been found in the IE Microsoft policies homepage section, i (before going online ) turn off IE8 by the (turn windows features on/off ) feature and use Firefox instead.

To my great dissapointment, after all windows updates and updates for all the other programs have completed i do a scan with Malwarebytes and PUMHIJACKHO is back.

I had a feeling it was back when i inserted my windows iso disk in the dvd slot to re install because it always makes a lot of noises but i went ahead anyway.

Is there anyway i can really get rid of this thing?

I used to think i got this thing when installing Avast and other programs when going online without protection while downloading updates , but after Chaslang suggested i get protection before going online by having someone burn me a disk from a clean computer with those programs i thought i would be alright.

Please help, nothing has worked except using DBAN.
Thank you

 

Hi Chaslang, don't get me wrong, your advice is always very much appreciated as i always end up coming here because of it . I feel if you cant fix it nobody can .

I understand exactly what your saying but this thing shows itself before i make any changes and it always shows (BAD 1) never (GOOD 0) at the end.

I have managed to get rid of it for awhile in the past when i used DBAN and i always follow the same procedure , but this time it came back .

If i put anything in the DVD drive it just opens and closes and makes all types of non stop noises.

 

I am coming to the conclusion that your right , it seems i am spending way too much time fighting it when it really may not be a major issue. I was curious as to why it always had a 1 under (Bad) instead of a 1 under (good) maybe that's why i think it's bad.




Unfortunately i deleted the Mbam logs while deleting it so if it comes up again i will be sure to post the log so you can see it, somehow i know you will remember.Thanks again Chaslang, your help is very much appreciated.

ps. I am a native Northern N.J guy myself but moved down here rather recently to get away from the always hectic N.J lifestyle, don't like it here either, way too slow