Virus alert / desktop hijack / clock screwy

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by ktwister, Sep 17, 2008.

  1. ktwister

    ktwister Private E-2

    I had 'VIRUS ALERT' imbedded into my clock, and it displayed military time. I removed that partially with Spybot. Now, the 'VIRUS ALERT' is removed, but the clock is still in military time. At one point these infections broke into my safe mode, and begin affecting things. Used various virus programs since my Norton contract has lapsed. The Norton Program is also unable to be removed from the add/remove program section of the Control Panel. Am currently using Avira evaluation. I scanned for the bad wares and removed many with AVG & Malwarebytes, however I restarted into safe mode after scans in a couple instances. Not sure if that is going to affect my startup, but the computer is STILL infected since it starts up very very slow now, and I noticed that the browser is hijacked in a couple areas.
    One, where you can expand your icons at the bottom right, and the arrow is missing.
    Two, where you can hit the green 'Start' in the bottom left, most preferentials such as quicklinks to folders are missing including, 'My Computer'.

    I cannot update to most other virus programs on that computer right now since I am Windows XP Home SP1, and most viral programs require SP2. Arrrggggh! mad.gif

    Included attachments in the following order: Pandascan log, Malwarebytes log, & HijackThis log.

    PLEASE HELP :cry
     

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  2. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    Welcome to Major Geeks!

    Please uninstall HJT as it will be properly installed when you do the following:

    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.
    READ & RUN ME FIRST. Malware Removal Guide

    Notes:

    1. If you run into problems trying to run the READ & RUN ME or any of the scans in normal boot mode. You can running steps in safe boot mode but make sure you tell us what you did later when you post logs. See the below if you do not know how to boot in safe mode:
    2. If you have problems downloading on the problem PC, download the tools on another PC and burn to a CD. Then copy them to the problem PC. You will have to skip getting updates if (and only if) your internet connection does not work. Yes you could use a flash drive too but flash drives are writeable and infections can spread to them.
     

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