kitbeery
2006-09-17, 16:23
When I do a search, or use explore function, I often get a dialog box "Windows Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close" (w/Sorry, etc,Debug,send error report). At this point I need to go to Task Manager and end process on the non-responding Explorer in order to get back to my desktop.
Sometimes I get a related? " Application error-explorer.exe- instruction @ ox******** reference memory @ ox*********. The memory could not be read."
I believe this all started when I d/l a codec (last week-before the most recent sticky!). I have scanned w/ various programs but recently the online scanners (I've tried many) -and d/l ewido scan, hang up at a certain folder in My Documents. I've narrowed it down to a folder "Classical Music" and when I try to delete this folder -(I can delete others)-, the Explorer hangs up as above.
Other notes:
1)The partial ewido scan showed Downloader.Agent.uj, and numerous tracking cookies. It hung up when getting to the Classical Music folder.
2)Spybot in safe mode took 3 hours to scan and showed Pipas.A, which reoccurs after fixing.
3)Through out these various scans I have had various & numerous files in System32 of the dm***.exe variety.
Fresh Hijack this! (P.S. the five 017 entries had been previously fixed in HJT, but I restored them for you to see.)
Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 6:03:46 AM, on 17-Sep-06
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180)
Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\csrss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\ehome\ehtray.exe
C:\Program Files\Analog Devices\Core\smax4pnp.exe
C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel Application Accelerator\iaanotif.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\ALWILS~1\Avast4\ashDisp.exe
C:\Program Files\Hotkeycontrol XP\hkcontrol.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\dla\tfswctrl.exe
C:\Program Files\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\zlclient.exe
C:\Program Files\ewido anti-spyware 4.0\ewido.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe
C:\Program Files\Digital Line Detect\DLG.exe
C:\Program Files\SpywareGuard\sgmain.exe
C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\aswUpdSv.exe
C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\ashServ.exe
C:\Program Files\SpywareGuard\sgbhp.exe
C:\WINDOWS\eHome\ehRecvr.exe
C:\WINDOWS\eHome\ehSched.exe
C:\Program Files\ewido anti-spyware 4.0\guard.exe
C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel Application Accelerator\iaantmon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\HPZipm12.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ZoneLabs\vsmon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\wwSecure.exe
C:\WINDOWS\ehome\mcrdsvc.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllhost.exe
C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\ashWebSv.exe
C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\ashMaiSv.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\alg.exe
C:\WINDOWS\eHome\ehmsas.exe
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\NOTEPAD.EXE
C:\Program Files\HijackThis\HijackThis.exe
O2 - BHO: SpywareGuard Download Protection - {4A368E80-174F-4872-96B5-0B27DDD11DB2} - C:\Program Files\SpywareGuard\dlprotect.dll
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [!ewido] "C:\Program Files\ewido anti-spyware 4.0\ewido.exe" /minimized
O4 - Startup: SpywareGuard.lnk = C:\Program Files\SpywareGuard\sgmain.exe
O15 - Trusted Zone: http://www.bitdefender.com
O15 - Trusted Zone: http://www3.ca.com
O15 - Trusted Zone: http://www.kaspersky.com
O15 - Trusted Zone: http://www.pandasoftware.com
O15 - Trusted Zone: http://www.trendmicro.com
O16 - DPF: {7B297BFD-85E4-4092-B2AF-16A91B2EA103} (WScanCtl Class) - http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/webscan.cab
O17 - HKLM\System\CCS\Services\Tcpip\..\{23FEB6A9-DCE4-4755-B94D-2F7CC187FD9F}: NameServer = 85.255.114.74,85.255.112.61
O17 - HKLM\System\CCS\Services\Tcpip\..\{59E1A27A-34CE-4297-84DF-15D9461035AE}: NameServer = 85.255.114.74,85.255.112.61
O17 - HKLM\System\CCS\Services\Tcpip\..\{8BEDBDD1-D1DE-4AFE-8E25-930F21D7BB5A}: NameServer = 85.255.114.74,85.255.112.61
O17 - HKLM\System\CS1\Services\Tcpip\Parameters: NameServer = 85.255.114.74 85.255.112.61
O17 - HKLM\System\CCS\Services\Tcpip\Parameters: NameServer = 85.255.114.74 85.255.112.61
O23 - Service: ewido anti-spyware 4.0 guard - Anti-Malware Development a.s. - C:\Program Files\ewido anti-spyware 4.0\guard.exe
Firmwareout:
Check for missing files
.....
C:\WINDOWS\system32\AUTOEXEC.NT not there
.....
End check for missing files
.....
please post this at the forum
See next post for Kapersky scan.
Sometimes I get a related? " Application error-explorer.exe- instruction @ ox******** reference memory @ ox*********. The memory could not be read."
I believe this all started when I d/l a codec (last week-before the most recent sticky!). I have scanned w/ various programs but recently the online scanners (I've tried many) -and d/l ewido scan, hang up at a certain folder in My Documents. I've narrowed it down to a folder "Classical Music" and when I try to delete this folder -(I can delete others)-, the Explorer hangs up as above.
Other notes:
1)The partial ewido scan showed Downloader.Agent.uj, and numerous tracking cookies. It hung up when getting to the Classical Music folder.
2)Spybot in safe mode took 3 hours to scan and showed Pipas.A, which reoccurs after fixing.
3)Through out these various scans I have had various & numerous files in System32 of the dm***.exe variety.
Fresh Hijack this! (P.S. the five 017 entries had been previously fixed in HJT, but I restored them for you to see.)
Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 6:03:46 AM, on 17-Sep-06
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180)
Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\csrss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\ehome\ehtray.exe
C:\Program Files\Analog Devices\Core\smax4pnp.exe
C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel Application Accelerator\iaanotif.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\ALWILS~1\Avast4\ashDisp.exe
C:\Program Files\Hotkeycontrol XP\hkcontrol.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\dla\tfswctrl.exe
C:\Program Files\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\zlclient.exe
C:\Program Files\ewido anti-spyware 4.0\ewido.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe
C:\Program Files\Digital Line Detect\DLG.exe
C:\Program Files\SpywareGuard\sgmain.exe
C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\aswUpdSv.exe
C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\ashServ.exe
C:\Program Files\SpywareGuard\sgbhp.exe
C:\WINDOWS\eHome\ehRecvr.exe
C:\WINDOWS\eHome\ehSched.exe
C:\Program Files\ewido anti-spyware 4.0\guard.exe
C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel Application Accelerator\iaantmon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\HPZipm12.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ZoneLabs\vsmon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\wwSecure.exe
C:\WINDOWS\ehome\mcrdsvc.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllhost.exe
C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\ashWebSv.exe
C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\ashMaiSv.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\alg.exe
C:\WINDOWS\eHome\ehmsas.exe
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\NOTEPAD.EXE
C:\Program Files\HijackThis\HijackThis.exe
O2 - BHO: SpywareGuard Download Protection - {4A368E80-174F-4872-96B5-0B27DDD11DB2} - C:\Program Files\SpywareGuard\dlprotect.dll
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [!ewido] "C:\Program Files\ewido anti-spyware 4.0\ewido.exe" /minimized
O4 - Startup: SpywareGuard.lnk = C:\Program Files\SpywareGuard\sgmain.exe
O15 - Trusted Zone: http://www.bitdefender.com
O15 - Trusted Zone: http://www3.ca.com
O15 - Trusted Zone: http://www.kaspersky.com
O15 - Trusted Zone: http://www.pandasoftware.com
O15 - Trusted Zone: http://www.trendmicro.com
O16 - DPF: {7B297BFD-85E4-4092-B2AF-16A91B2EA103} (WScanCtl Class) - http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/webscan.cab
O17 - HKLM\System\CCS\Services\Tcpip\..\{23FEB6A9-DCE4-4755-B94D-2F7CC187FD9F}: NameServer = 85.255.114.74,85.255.112.61
O17 - HKLM\System\CCS\Services\Tcpip\..\{59E1A27A-34CE-4297-84DF-15D9461035AE}: NameServer = 85.255.114.74,85.255.112.61
O17 - HKLM\System\CCS\Services\Tcpip\..\{8BEDBDD1-D1DE-4AFE-8E25-930F21D7BB5A}: NameServer = 85.255.114.74,85.255.112.61
O17 - HKLM\System\CS1\Services\Tcpip\Parameters: NameServer = 85.255.114.74 85.255.112.61
O17 - HKLM\System\CCS\Services\Tcpip\Parameters: NameServer = 85.255.114.74 85.255.112.61
O23 - Service: ewido anti-spyware 4.0 guard - Anti-Malware Development a.s. - C:\Program Files\ewido anti-spyware 4.0\guard.exe
Firmwareout:
Check for missing files
.....
C:\WINDOWS\system32\AUTOEXEC.NT not there
.....
End check for missing files
.....
please post this at the forum
See next post for Kapersky scan.