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Hi Shelf,

Thanks for responding, I've decided to go ahead and re-install windows on this computer. Happy holidays!

Yet another nasty bit my Thinkpad T60. It started with a bogus security program that hid all my files and programs and disabled restore, task manager and my antivirus. I was able to fix the restore...

Hi Jeff, It was only 8 megs

Thanks again,

vince

Hi Jeff, I tried TDSSKILLER but it would just hang up and refused to run.

I noticed in My Computer that a mysterious Drive Q would sometimes appear on the list of drives. This drive had no...

Hi Jeff, Yes clicking on any search result with google or yahoo search engines results in a redirection to some bogus search sites. Also as soon as I connect to the internet, there is a hidden...

Hi Jeff, I successfully ran Malwarebytes but had a problem getting the ESET scanner to complete run all the way. After four tries it did finish.

I noted that the hijacker on this system that...

Hi Jeff, OTL ran successfully. Here is the results log of the fix run:


All processes killed
========== SERVICES/DRIVERS ==========
========== OTL ==========
Service ReferenceBoss_1pService...

Hi Jeff, The computer is a T43 Thinkpad notebook owned by a 79 year old friend's dad and used for personal stuff. It may at one time been used in a corporate environment before he acquired it. ...

Hi Jeff - OTL ran without issues. Below are the two log files:

Thanks for your help - vince


OTL logfile created on: 11/18/2011 6:30:32 AM - Run 1
OTL by OldTimer - Version 3.2.31.0 ...

Hi Jeff, I tried to run aswMBR with no success. It would not start up.....

Thanks, vince

Hi Jeff, This post is a continuation of the last post. After I cleared the error code dialog on Gmer, it came up and successfully ran. Here is the results log:

GMER 1.0.15.15641 -...

Hi Jeff, Thanks for your help on this problem. I tried all 5 versions of Rkill. It would run ok but DDS would run for a while then just stall and lock up the computer. I would then have to do a...

A friend brought me his personal laptop that was badly infected and would not boot. I was able to restore the registry to the last known working version and boot to windows.

The c drive was...

I researched this problem further and found the exploit. The virus got into my router (standard netgear with factory password) and changed the dns servers to their infected servers. They could then...

I found a hijacker that would re-direct search requests from Yahoo and Google on one computer in our house and a few hours later found it had spread to all seven computers in our house. These...

Shaba you are truely a wizard - shining light into the dark mysterious magical realm of the CODE! Every thing is purring here -


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thanks for help and...

Hi Shaba, thanks for looking at this... I really appreciate it!
It was really bothering me to think that there was some hidden nasty on my system messing with my stuff...

I ran ATF Cleaner and...

When visiting a website I was somehow tagged with a trojen/virus. My computer suddenly rebooted by itself and when it came back up a program was self-installing and copying files. I interrupted...

While I was waiting for a reply to this thread, I went ahead and ran Vondofix, Spybot, and HJT. It looks like Vondofix and Spybot got most of it and I was able to clean up two additional infected...

Here is the Kapersky Log file:

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KASPERSKY ONLINE SCANNER REPORT
Tuesday, November 06, 2007 3:12:34 PM
Operating...

My spybot scan finds virtumonde and after several attempts to remove it, it returns when the computer is rebooted.

My HJT log is as follows. I will post the Kaspersky log in a new post:

Logfile...