trojan.startpage.m again....

I had posted a thread about two weeks ago about this same virus and it seemed that it was resolved...the virus was not reported by my Norton Antivirus. Several days later, it reared it's ugly head. So here we go again...

I have a custom build computer running a Pentium 4 CPU 3.00GHz w 1 GB of RAM and about 500 GB of hard drive. I've got XP Pro version 2002, Service Pack 2.

My problem is that my virus protection program, Norton AntiVirus, keeps catching what it calls Trojan.StartPage.M trying to hijack IE. It generally fires when I launch IE. When I switched to FireFox, the warnings lessened. Now that I've got the latest upgrade to Norton, it fires when Norton checks for upgrades. It also appears to fire if I leave my computer on and unattended for several hours.

The last time I posted this problem, it appeared to be fixed. I could launch IE just fine. However, about two days later, it started up again.

I've run through the malware read & run me first post from chaslang and got several reports of malware....the three logs are attached.

 

I've run the procedure you asked for.

Attached is the log file for about:Buster...I ran it three times (the first was looking for the update...which I never found.)

Another behavior that has just started is when I reboot, I get an error that se.dll cannot be found. I keyed in on that because that dll is mention in Norton's docs on Trojan.StartPage.M. I also noticed a line in the HijackThis log,
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [sp] rundll32 C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\se.dll,DllInstall

I have not done anything with it....just pointing it out.

Waiting for your reply.

 

I'm cautiously optomistic...
I launched IE with no notice from Norton,
I ran Norton's LiveUpdate...and again no virus notice.

The only remaining tests are to check again tomorrow and the next day and to let my computer run unattended for several hours.

I'll let you know on Wed how things are going.

Thanks very much for your assistance and for this web site...It's a great resource and so far, I've referred three other people to it...for both help in dealing with viruses and as a general information rescource.

 

I've run all of my checks and the trojan seems to be gone!!!

Thanks again.