Malware installed as Driver

Yes, however my computer is seldom on at 3:00 A.M. That's update time.

Notes:
I turned on my computer and 0x76b22b6d memory at 0x87fd5000 could not be read. I debugged, however my wireless wasn't working. So I rebooted. no errors with wireless afterward or anything else.

And in both boots Quickset.exe did not initialize. It's a nice little thing that displays bars such as volume or brightness when you are changing them using Fn combinations. Have the programs I've been running shut that off because it's a startup program? It's helpful because I can't tell if I have enabled or disabled my wireless device from Network Connections or any individual wireless configuring program. Fn+F2 actually disabled whatever it is that transmits (transmitter?) and isn't shown from any wireless device so to know I just experiment. But with Quickset it displays a radio tower with an X over it or transmitting a signal so that really helps me out. I did however, initialize quickset.exe myself and all's well. It's a Dell program.
 
Then I suggest that you disable them and let me know if it helped for startup slowness.
 
I wasn't thinking and ran Mozilla as soon as the screen came up (around 3.5 min.) and then task manager. My computer was at 2-5% in 6.5 minutes with Mozilla running. How good/bad is that?
 
Should I reactive the real-time scan on Trend Micro PC-cillin? That's my only real virus protection. I have Norton Security Scan (free version), Adaware SE Personal (free version), and ATF cleaner, though that's not for removing threats. I just ran Spybot and it found cookies, but no driver.core.cache etc. file. So has my computer been fixed? I haven't had any internet explorer pop-ups.

Are we done? Should I delete the Recovery console? Should I keep all the programs you had been download in case of future infection?

I once tried to play Halo for PC on this computer. When my computer was young and innocent it went pretty well. But when it became corrupted it started lagging. Whenever I hit a checkpoint I would wait a few minutes. But this computer isn't supposed to be able to handle Halo...hehe
 
"Should I reactive the real-time scan on Trend Micro PC-cillin? "

No.

"So has my computer been fixed?"

Yes we can assume so :)

"Are we done? Should I delete the Recovery console? Should I keep all the programs you had been download in case of future infection?"

You can delete it but there is no 100% need for that.

All programs will get deleted during final cleanup :)

Still some issues left?
 
None of name. My computer took 6:00 minutes to boot and go down to 2%. The process aside from system idel process that had a large CPU digit was wmiprvse.exe under SYSTEM.

So, if I don't have real-time scan going....and tea timer is off...what is protecting me?
 
Sorry, I answered wrong :red:

You should re-activate Trend. I read it wrong and thought you asked for scanning with Trend.
 
I just used a flash drive. I scanned it with Trend and it didn't find any viruses. Is that enough or is there some other way to test for viruses on a flash drive. Sometimes I've seen real-time scanning disable the autorun on a flash drive. Is there any other measure to take in not getting viruses from flash drives. I have a separate laptop from my school now and they have disabled all e-mail websites and I can't install hardware such as printers without an admin password, so I have to use a flashdrive. Which stinks.

So, is a regular virus scan enough?
 
Disabling flash drive autorun is usually enough.

Do you need instructions for that?
 
Yes, please. I should probably recognize it because I've dealt with CD's whose Autorun was blocked by one security system or another.
 
:sad: problem. A) tried to merge the .reg file. It said I could not merge it form outside registry editor...I don't know what that is.

Also, I installed a wireless HP printer yesterday and it put a bunch of HP junk on my computer. I think it encountered an error at 99% but it continued like there was no problem. Today I booted up and one of the HP programs encountered an error. I ignored it and stuck in a the flash drive (which I had already scanned for viruses yesterday) after the desktop loaded.... The computer was running at 100% for 15 minutes so I rebooted without the flash drive. Same error. Still running 100% forever. Then I disabled Windows Update which I had re-enabled. And rebooted. Same error after 16 minutes but after I clicked don't send instead of debug this time, the PC usage immediately declined 48%....something whack...I'm going to reboot this time and take note of which program it is. I'd rather just delete it than reinstall it. The whole onstallation process took an hour almost. It involves wireless, USB, and a disc. HP really knows how to make stuff simple.

Would you say it is this program that is causing my problems?
 
A final note, so you know what kind of a person you're dealing with. Taking it upon myself to fix the problem. I searched for HP DIgital Imaging Monitor under all files. Found a start-up link and an unrecognized file under WINDOWS/pss. Finding all files in WINDOWS/pss as unreadable, I deleted! the file. Hoping this fixed the problem, I rebooted. And what should happen but Windows Explorer encounters and error and needs to close. After that desktop did not load. So I rebooted and attempted to boot under recovery console...silly me. Realized that didn't do anything I could understand. So I rebooted in normal mode and luckily desktop loaded, so I promptly recovered WINDOWS/pss from the recycle bin. I removed the program HP update prior to deleting WINDOWS/pss and have left that off the computer, but that shouldn't affect anything should it?

Yes, I deleted a WINDOWS file...how bad is it to do that?
 
Then you can open regedit (start - run) and choose File - import and import that file.

Did you delete windows\pss folder?

If you have problems with HP products, I recommend that you contact HP for those issues :)
 
Okay, I did so and it asked me if I wanted to replace a pre-existing file...and I clicked yes. And it is took a moment or two to save.

Yes, I deleted the whole folder, and then I restored it.

Okay, the last 3/4 times I booted up my computer encountered an error of some sort with the same referenced memory. I clicked debug the first two times and then "don't send"ed after. Every time windows explorer encountered an error and needed to close, thus effectively disabling my wireless managing capabilities so I could not use the internet. But the 4/5th time's a charm and no problems...except I am still getting the HP error every time around. I will try uninstalling and reinstalling over the weekend.

So, with this new registry file, how does that affect my interaction with CD's and flash drives? If I'm trying to run a CD (i.e. HP software CD), do I need to open the CD and find setup.exe every time? Flash drives are just...drives, so that won't change, right? I just open the drive it's in and view files like I normally would, correct?

thanks
 
Jeremiah said:
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Okay, the last 3/4 times I booted up my computer encountered an error of some sort with the same referenced memory. I clicked debug the first two times and then "don't send"ed after. Every time windows explorer encountered an error and needed to close, thus effectively disabling my wireless managing capabilities so I could not use the internet.
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I hesitate to turn off the computer for fear I will encounter more referenced memory problems. Is there a way to fix these...registry cleaners?
 
P.S.^749

Is it okay for me to delete the noautorun.reg file now that I have merged it with the registry? Tt is still sitting on my desktop.
 
"So, with this new registry file, how does that affect my interaction with CD's and flash drives? If I'm trying to run a CD (i.e. HP software CD), do I need to open the CD and find setup.exe every time? Flash drives are just...drives, so that won't change, right? I just open the drive it's in and view files like I normally would, correct?"

Yes it is like you said.

"I hesitate to turn off the computer for fear I will encounter more referenced memory problems. Is there a way to fix these...registry cleaners?"

That indicates either hardware or software problems.

"Is it okay for me to delete the noautorun.reg file now that I have merged it with the registry? Tt is still sitting on my desktop."

Yes.
 
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