Windows Update page redirection

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by vkinetic, May 20, 2010.

  1. vkinetic

    vkinetic Private First Class

    I have a PC that had a rogue security application. The computer was cleaned with Spybot, Malwarebytes, Super AntiSpy and Hitman 3.5. I have also ran the latest Malicious Software tool. All report system is now clean. Except for a few 'file missing" entries in HJT (which were fixed), the only entry that looked suspicious was 010 winsock lsp nwprovau.dll which couldn't be fixed. Downloaded the latest LSPFix and it reported no problems (the aforementioned dll is apparently associated with NetGear routers).

    However Windows updates is not working - when you click Express (get high priority updates) it goes to a page error. If you type in the Windows Update site address in IE8 you get a page error or if you do the same in Mozilla you get taken to some crap page, and if you google, bing or yahoo 'Windows Updates" etc, when you click a link it goes to some crap page. This behaviour occurs in both Mozilla and IE8. I've reset the zones to default in IE8 and reset the IE settings. I've also disabled most of the Add-ins in both IE8 and Mozilla.

    Where do we go from here? Wasn't sure whether you wanted the usual scans in this scenario. Would appreciate your help.
     
  2. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    We still will need to see the "usual" scans:
    SAS
    MBAM
    RootRepeal
    ComboFix
    C:\MGlogs.zip
     
  3. vkinetic

    vkinetic Private First Class

    Thank you. It appears the issue has been fixed. Thanks for your assistance.
     
  4. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    No problem. Safe surfing. :)
     

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