Remove cws.msconfig

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Not according to your log! And also if you had, you would have attach all the other requested logs! You may have done some of the steps but not all of them. In addition, you are even using MSconfig which we clearly specify in step 7 not to use.

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.




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• 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 - ONLY IF you were not able to run Windows Defender
  • 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!

 

Please read what the step says and follow the directions. I'll highlight it for you below just like it says in step 7.

You are skipping it! It's pretty hard to miss the large red print instructions.

When you click the link, read the second sentence and tell me what you see.

Your problem is not with MSconfig. It is with CWS.msconfig which are totally unrelated.

 

Hmmmm! Not according to HijackThis which shows:

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [MSConfig] C:\WINDOWS\PCHealth\HelpCtr\Binaries\MSConfig.exe /auto

This only shows when MSconfig is used to control something. Let's try some steps below but first we need to stop Ewido and Ad-Aware's Ad-Watch or they may block the changes. So shutdown both of them first before continuing. By the way you really should not use both Ewido and Ad-watch! If Ewido is a trial version you should uninstall it. Also I see XoftSpy in your installed programs list. Is this also installed and is it a free or paid version?


Copy the bold text below to notepad. Save it as fixme.reg to your desktop. Be sure the "Save as" type is set to "all files" Once you have saved it double click it and allow it to merge with the registry.

Now reboot and attach a new log from HJT.

I don't see any real malware. You do have a few items for your laptop missing per the below in your HJT log:
O20 - Winlogon Notify: ACNotify - ACNotify.dll (file missing)
O20 - Winlogon Notify: atmgrtok - atmgrtok.dll (file missing)

 

That was the reason why I was having you shutdown Ad-Watch and Ewido. I new they would block the fixing of that line. You should uninstall Windows Defender to avoid conflicts with Ad-Watch and the excess use of system resources.

If you are not having any other malware problems, you should work thru the below link:

How to Protect yourself from malware!