virtumonde x2

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by lilackit, Jul 14, 2008.

  1. lilackit

    lilackit Private E-2

    Unfortunately this isn't my 1st experience with Virtumonde. But it is the 1st where it's this stubborn. I installed Quickbooks which had me lower my internet security settings to default. Big mistake, I know. I got popups that tell me I have a virus and then starts to download a program to get rid of it. Windows warns me of dll files that don't work (and probably shouldn't be there in the 1st place). It turned off (supposedly) my windows automatic updates. If I click the actual windows automatic updates link to fix it, it says it's turned on. Clicking the link from the windows security center that says "turn on automatic updates" opened a page on my web browser (Firefox) that looked like a summary of my documents (probably not a good thing). Every time I restart my computer my cookies level is back down to low. Ran Trend Micro antivirus and it pulls up things that are easily fixed. Adaware and spybot pull up virtumonde, virtumonde.prx, and win32.trojan.delf. Ran AFT cleaner. Ran Trend Micro's sysclean, VirtumondeBeGone, and VundoFix, all pick up nothing. I ran SuperAntiSpyware last time this happened too, but I deleted the file since Trend Micro said it was infected with a trojan. Now I can't reinstall it because I can't access much of anything online. And my spybot is going crazy blocking a BMoff06fa2 change.
     

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  2. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Welcome to Major Geeks!

    Please follow the instructions in the below link and attach the requested logs when you finish these instructions. If something does not run, write down the info to explain to us later but keep on going. Do not assume that because one step does not work that they all will not. You have Spybot's Teatimer enabled and you MUST disable it as requested in the READ & RUN ME. You really should do this first before even starting any of the scanning instructions because it may get in the way. So see this first : How to disable Spybot's TeaTimer and then continue on to the below.

    READ & RUN ME FIRST. Malware Removal Guide
     
  3. lilackit

    lilackit Private E-2

    I ran everything and it seems to have worked. But my computer is suddenly very slow at start up. When I start it up, I get to the windows screen and then a dark gray and then a black screen for an amount of time before I finally get my desktop with icons. Then the icons on the start bar, the ones near the time, take forever to load. So something that takes about 2 minutes now takes 4. And I don't think it's the programs because my computer's memory is only 1/3 filled. Is it really cleaned? And what can be causing this slowing down? And when I tried to update malawarebytes, it never connected to the mirror. Is that normal?
     

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  4. lilackit

    lilackit Private E-2

    and spybot picked up nothing.
     

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  5. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    On the contrary! It is the programs that are loading at startup. It has nothing to do with how much memory you are using. All the programs loading take time to load and protection programs take longer than others to get themselves hooked into your operating system so that they protect you properly and as soon as possible after bootup.

    Not quite yet but they what's left is not impacting boot up.

    It may have been down or slow at the time.

    I will give a few more things to do below in the HijackThis fix that will help your startup a little but this is not malware. It is just unnecessary startups. Other steps will remove remaining malware.


    Run C:\MGtools\analyse.exe by double clicking on it (Note: if using Vista, don't double click, use right click and select Run As Administrator). This is really HijackThis (select Do a system scan only) and select the following lines but DO NOT CLICK FIX until you exit all browser sessions including the one you are reading in right now:

    O3 - Toolbar: (no name) - {BA52B914-B692-46c4-B683-905236F6F655} - (no file)
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [DVDLauncher] "C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDVD\DVDLauncher.exe"
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [DMXLauncher] C:\Program Files\Dell\Media Experience\DMXLauncher.exe
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [MMTray] "C:\Program Files\Musicmatch\Musicmatch Jukebox\mm_tray.exe"
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [QuickTime Task] "C:\Program Files\QuickTime\qttask.exe" -atboottime
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [DwlClient] C:\Program Files\Common Files\Dell\EUSW\Support.exe
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NeroCheck] C:\WINDOWS\system32\NeroCheck.exe
    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [HP Software Update] C:\Program Files\HP\HP Software Update\HPWuSchd2.exe
    O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [updateMgr] "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\AdobeUpdateManager.exe" AcRdB7_0_9 -reboot 1
    O4 - Startup: Webshots.lnk = C:\Program Files\Webshots\Launcher.exe
    O4 - Global Startup: Microsoft Office.lnk = C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\OSA.EXE

    And you can also optionally fix the below Yahoo item which you probably don't need at startup.
    O4 - Global Startup: ymetray.lnk = ?

    After clicking Fix, exit HJT.


    Now we need to use ComboFix to remove a bunch of malware files.
    • Make sure that combofix.exe that you downloaded while doing the READ & RUN ME is on your Desktop but Do not run it!
      • If it is not on your Desktop, the below will not work.
    • Open Notepad and copy/paste the text in the below quote box into it:
    • Save the above as CFscript.txt and make sure you save it to the same location (should be on your Desktop) as ComboFix.exe
    • At this point, you MUST EXIT ALL BROWSERS NOW before continuing!
    • You should have both the ComboFix.exe and CFScript.txt icons on your Desktop.
    • Now use your mouse to drag CFscript.txt on top of ComboFix.exe
    • Follow the prompts.
    • When it finishes, a log will be produced named c:\combofix.txt
    • I will ask for this log below
    Note:

    Do not mouseclick combofix's window while it is running. That may cause it to stall.

    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.
    Make sure that you tell me if you receive a success message about adding the above
    to the registry. If you do not get a success message, it definitely did not work.

    Now run Ccleaner!

    Now run the C:\MGtools\GetLogs.bat file by double clicking on it (Note: if using Vista, don't double click, use right click and select Run As Administrator).


    Then attach the below logs:
    • C:\ComboFix.txt
    • C:\MGlogs.zip
    Make sure you tell me how things are working now!

    First let's uninstall SUPERAntiSpyware now since we are finished with it.
     
  6. lilackit

    lilackit Private E-2

    I got rid of the start up programs but it still is slow loading up those programs. Even after I got rid of superantivirus. The registry fix did work. And my clock still reads in army time after combofix was done. How do I change it back?
     

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  7. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Did you mean SUPERAntiSpyware?

    At the end of the below.


    This first part with HijackThis is optional. It is only to help address your startup delay issue a little more. These items do not need to load at startup. The same may be tru of a couple others but you will have to decide with the rest of them what is needed/used by you or not. [/b]

    Run C:\MGtools\analyse.exe by double clicking on it (Note: if using Vista, don't double click, use right click and select Run As Administrator). This is really HijackThis (select Do a system scan only) and select the following lines but DO NOT CLICK FIX until you exit all browser sessions including the one you are reading in right now:

    O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SunJavaUpdateSched] "C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jusched.exe"
    O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Creative Detector] C:\Program Files\Creative\MediaSource\Detector\CTDetect.exe /R
    O4 - Global Startup: QuickBooks Update Agent.lnk = C:\Program Files\Common Files\Intuit\QuickBooks\QBUpdate\qbupdate.exe

    After clicking Fix, exit HJT.


    We have a couple more files to remove with ComboFix to.
    • Make sure that combofix.exe that you downloaded while doing the READ & RUN ME is on your Desktop but Do not run it!
      • If it is not on your Desktop, the below will not work.
    • Open Notepad and copy/paste the text in the below quote box into it:
    • Save the above as CFscript.txt and make sure you save it to the same location (should be on your Desktop) as ComboFix.exe
    • At this point, you MUST EXIT ALL BROWSERS NOW before continuing!
    • You should have both the ComboFix.exe and CFScript.txt icons on your Desktop.
    • Now use your mouse to drag CFscript.txt on top of ComboFix.exe
    • Follow the prompts.
    • When it finishes, a log will be produced named c:\combofix.txt
    • I will ask for this log below
    Note:

    Do not mouseclick combofix's window while it is running. That may cause it to stall.


    Now run double click the same fixME.reg patch that is on your Desktop from the previous fix and allow it to be added to the registry again.
    Please download ATF Cleaner by Atribune. This program does not require an installation. The executable actually runs the program.


    NOTE: This program is for Windows XP and Windows 2000 only. ATF Cleaner will remove all files from the items that are checked so if you have some cookies you'd like to save. Please move them to a different directory first.
    • Double-click ATF-Cleaner.exe to run the program.
    • Under Main choose: Select All
    • Click the Empty Selected button.
    If you use Firefox browser
    • Click Firefox at the top and choose: Select All
    • Click the Empty Selected button.
      • NOTE: If you would like to keep your saved passwords, please click No at the prompt.
    If you use Opera browser
    • Click Opera at the top and choose: Select All
    • Click the Empty Selected button.
      • NOTE: If you would like to keep your saved passwords, please click No at the prompt.
    Click Exit on the Main ATF Cleaner menu to close the program.

    You can fix your clock from Control Panel ->Regional and Language Options and then on the Regional Options tab click the Customize button then on the next form click the Time tab. Then change the Time format to what you want. It explains there what the lower case and upper case letters will do. Upper case H is giving you 24 hour clock settings.


    Now just to dig a little deeper, we will check for rootkits. Please run the below and attach the log later:

    Running GMER to detect rootkits

    Now run the C:\MGtools\GetLogs.bat file by double clicking on it.


    Then attach the below logs:
    • C:\ComboFix.txt
    • the log from GMER
    • C:\MGlogs.zip
    Make sure you tell me how things are working now!
     
  8. lilackit

    lilackit Private E-2

    Yes, it is superantispyware. Antivirus just flows better than antispyware. :) I am now sometimes getting "Generic Host Process for Win32 Services has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." message after startup. And the startup programs are still oddly slow. And sometimes my desktop flashes back to classic windows instead of windows xp when some page on the internet loads.
     

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  9. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Your logs are all clean.

    This is frequently a problem within your Window operating system files or a conflict with other programs that are running. You will need to debug this in the Software Forum. You should check out the Event Logs to find the reason for the crash and give the details in your post in the Software Forum. You can read the below for more info:

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427
     

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