Son's downloading days are over!

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by kltrip, Dec 27, 2010.

  1. kltrip

    kltrip Private E-2

    My son downloaded a driver last night on the advice of an online friend. The only file in the download history was this:

    10-12_vista64_win7_64_dd.exe

    He downloaded this off the AMD.com site. He said the only thing he downloaded besides that was LOTR online.

    I was inundated with pop-up ads all morning. I ran every scan I could come up with including all of the pre-posting ones from the forum. Hijackthis still shows numerous harmful items that it just won't delete. Thanks in advance for your help!
     
  2. kltrip

    kltrip Private E-2

    Sorry, attachments didn't post with it.
     

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  3. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    First a big warning. You should obviously not be using HijackThis on your on. You are going to break your PC. There is nothing harmful in your HJT log.


    What actual malware problems are you currently still having?
     
    Last edited: Dec 27, 2010
  4. kltrip

    kltrip Private E-2

    My computer seems to be back to normal since I have run it through all the scans (a program named Gamevance kept appearing in the scans). Could you please explain what you meant about Hijackthis? I have been using this program for years now with no ill effects. How is it able to "wreck your computer"? Thanks again for your help! :)
     
  5. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    You made the below statement in your first message
    Since there is clearly nothing wrong in your HJT log that would mean that you are not an expert at reading HijackThis logs and only experts should be using it. When you use it improperly, you could delete required registry entries and files for your system to work properly. There are some entries that the operating system would just block you from removing anyway to protect itself but this does not apply to all entries. And it you just keep trying you could eventually cause problems for yourself. Many, many people have read HJT logs and made assumptions that everything being shown is bad and then just tried to have HJT fix everything. Then they go on to find out that many of their programs and even Windows does not work properly anymore.
     

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