virus that i should have seen coming..

:cry

Just found a craigs list ad for a free jeep cj7 needing body work/paint earlier this week, went to look at pictures, tried to dl an addon to view the pictures (i knew it looked shady as I was running it, reallllly should have known better), and the file turned my av off, and 'under the hood' started running a bunch of programs in a temporary internet folder, infecting my system. The polymorphic imagex.exe was impossible to identify with AV and infected deep into my os quicker than I could stop things from happening. This is the email I received, be careful if you visit this url. If anyone would like to sandbox & reverse engineer the imagex.exe I would appreciate it. I opened it with a text editor and found urls to known malware sites in it. It even closed combofix and some other utils i had tried to run against it, so be careful. I had to 0byte my hd and reinstall XP twice after getting this. About 36 hrs later, I am back up and running and making an image of my bare OS with a few programs and all the updates/AV current. I had a hijackthis log of immediately after I got it but I accidently deleted it. Heres the email with the URL:

If anyone can identify this variant thats wasted the last 36 hours of my life, please let me know! Thanks

Alex Datsko