Virus Troubles

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by eghiglio, May 1, 2010.

  1. eghiglio

    eghiglio Private E-2

    Opened up my task manager yesterday and noticed i had twice as many programs running. Used google on some of the listed programs, and found some could possibly be viruses masquerading as helpful programs, because I'm sure there is a whole mess of programs on there I hadn't seen a couple of days ago. So i followed all the instructions and cleaned up my computer, and got all the logs which i will post below. Thank you very much for your assistance in this!
     

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  2. eghiglio

    eghiglio Private E-2

    and the last of the logs.
     

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  3. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    First off, you should not be allowing all users to have Administrative privileges!! Malware that comes in on an account with Admin. privileges can spread to all other user accounts.

    Fortunately the scans took care of most of the malware. Let's do this:

    Please use add/remove programs to uninstall:
    J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 6

    Please disable all anti-virus and anti-spyware programs while we do the following (re-enable when you are finished):

    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:
    After clicking Fix, exit HJT.

    Now copy just the bold text below to notepad (Do not include any space above the word REGEDIT). 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:
    Download HostsXpert and then follow the below steps.

    • Unzip HostsXpert.zip
    • It will create a folder named HostsXpert in whatever folder you extract it to.
    • Run HostsXpert.exe by double clicking on it.
    • Click the Make Writeable? button. (if you only see a Make Read-Only selection, it is already writeable so skip this button).
    • Click Restore Microsoft's Hosts File and then click OK.
    • Click the X to exit the program
    Reboot and download and install:
    Java Runtime 6

    If you are not having any other malware problems, it is time to do our final steps:
    1. We recommend you keep SUPERAntiSpyware and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for scanning/removal of malware. Unless you purchase them, they provide no protection. They do not use any significant amount of resources ( except a little disk space ) until you run a scan.
    2. If we had you use ComboFix, uninstall ComboFix (This uninstall will only work as written if you installed ComboFix on your Desktop like we requested.)
      • Click START then RUN and enter the below into the run box and then click OK. Note the quotes are required
      • "%userprofile%\Desktop\combofix" /uninstall
        • Notes: The space between the combofix" and the /uninstall, it must be there.
        • This will uninstall ComboFix and also reset hidden files and folders settings back to Windows defaults.
    3. Any other miscellaneous tools we may have had you install or download can be uninstalled and deleted.
    4. If we had you download any registry patches like fixme.reg or fixWLK.reg (or any others), you can delete these files now.
    5. If running Vista, it is time to make sure you have reenabled UAC by double clicking on the C:\MGtools\enableUAC.reg file and allowing it to be added to the registry.
    6. Go to add/remove programs and uninstall HijackThis.
    7. Goto the C:\MGtools folder and find the MGclean.bat file. Double click on this file to run this cleanup program that will remove files and folders related to MGtools and some other items from our cleaning procedures.
    8. If you are running Vista, Windows XP or Windows ME, do the below:
      • Refer to the cleaning procedures pointed to by step 6 of the READ ME for your Window version and see the instructions to Disable System Restore which will flush your Restore Points.
      • Then reboot and Enable System Restore to create a new clean Restore Point.
    9. After doing the above, you should work thru the below link:
     
  4. eghiglio

    eghiglio Private E-2

    Okay, got rid of J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 6

    These:
    O1 - Hosts: ::1 localhost
    O1 - Hosts: 94.232.248.66 browser-security.microsoft.com
    O1 - Hosts: 94.232.248.66 antivguardian.com
    O1 - Hosts: 94.232.248.66 www.antivguardian.com
    Did not exist when i ran HJT, may have to do with removing AVG and getting comodo av and firewall, they found 6 threats and removed them yesterday.

    REGEDIT4 went through fine, did not receive any errors.

    Completed: Download HostsXpert and then follow the below steps. No errors or anything.

    Reboot and download and install:
    Java Runtime 6--> Did this yesterday while reading forums and found out that i had an older version, just didn't delete the other until you instructed.

    Oh, and gave other user accounts limited access, never really thought of it as a big deal. Thank you. Only thing now is opening task manager I still see oodles of programs I don't recognize. All of these steps managed to eliminate alot of them, but there are still a few there and I don't know what the heck they are. Should I run through the cleaning steps again and get you new logs?
     
  5. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    No, you should post in the software forum for quidance in stopping some of the startup programs. You can use THIS
     
    Last edited: May 2, 2010
  6. eghiglio

    eghiglio Private E-2

    Well, awesome! Tyvm for all your help! I'll pop into software now.:wave oh wait, that link you gave doesn't go to anything.
     
  7. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    How rude!! It was just a link to the software forum.....but I will fix it anyway. :) Done.
     
  8. eghiglio

    eghiglio Private E-2

    :-D, thanks a bunch you guys are wonderful.
     
  9. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    You are most welcome....safe surfing. :)
     

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