Solved Most malicious virus I have ever seen/had

[Timford]

I have a HP-mini-note hence the avatar xD.

Today I downloaded a demo off torrents and usually I am a very safe person on the internet and have never had the need of virus software, I feel a bit of a fool now but i'm pretty sure this malware could of got passed my avast anyway.

Some things it's done/doing:

• Blocked use of Task Manager
• Blocked use of Regedit
• Blocked use of display control
• Many pop up's asking for me to download software to stop "malicious software"!!!!!
• When I finally got taskmanager, regedit and display control working from some program like gpedit and changing the privalages.
• Controlling my firefox use, not allowing any access to a potential threat to the malware being removed, such as letting me visit forums, google etc. but avg, avast, spybot sites are all blocked
• Changed clock to VIRUS ALERT. Now fixed
• Slowed my computer down beyond belief
• Opening iexploder all the time
• This is doing my head in, and seen as I can't get in to safe mode because it BSOD's and says something about my graphics card not working yet it works in full mode.
• Putting gay porn icons on my desktop

I refuse to re-install windows again as well. I need this laptop for everyday use. Anyone an expert in malware removal on XP on this forum? I would use smitrem if I had access to safe mode.

 

[mansrm81]

I think your computer is to far infected, you safest route would be to reinstall.

 

[Timford]

I think I could do it If it is handled one part at a time though, I can get back my taks manager privelages with little trouble, I have got rid of the gay porn icons, I have restored the clock and got a standard XP wallpaper and theme on there where as before it was just a "you have been infected wallpaper" and a classic windows theme. It will all come together hopefully.

I think a lot of the things that will fix it are in the registry, but seen as i'm not a registry "pro" I am not sure as to what should and shouldn't be there. These pop ups are to do with it, I have analyzed the task manager and can't see anything out of the ordinary, killed a few I have found suspicious but they return quickly. I will keep working on it for the week, If I don't have it fixed by friday I will re-install.

I like a challenge :P

 

[tanuj_chadha]

download superanti spyware & do a full scan to see & check if it picks up any infections.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello Timford.

You mention Avast, have you run a boot scan to see what it can do.

FREE avast! antivirus 4.x Home Edition, anti-spyware & anti-rootkit for Windows

Also give this a go.

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Keep us informed!







Later Ted

 

[dinesh]

Hey download Malware Bytes Anti Malware and perform a full scan. Update the software before scan. download link:

Malwarebytes.org

 

[Timford]

I put a few hours into it and it's been one heck of a ride, I'm pretty sure I could own just about any malware problem now.

I removed the registry keys it inserted which came back after restarts however, managed to get my task manager back and found some dodgey exe files located them by win+r c:\ to get me on filemanager, searched the computer for each exe. I found the exe's all had a relation in the name for the most of them it was j0e. I searched this and removed every file. Found some DLL files I am not farmiliar with and deleted them after a quick google check on them. By now I had all rights back and my start menu was displaying properly. Then finally a qucik CCleaner and Avast! on boot and it was back up to full speed again. For the most part it was a manual fix. Limited amounts of software was used. Firefox also searches propperly now.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello again.

I'm glad you're getting it straightened out.

You might want to give this a run.

The home of Spybot-S&D!

Continue to keep us informed!









Later Ted

 

[mansrm81]

Nice job Timford I would have just formatted and reinstall my os.

 

[Timford]

Nice job Timford I would have just formatted and reinstall my os.

I find it more interesting my way xD. You learn things you didn't know before, and I hate reinstalling everything after a reinstall.

 

[smarteyeball]

I find it more interesting my way xD. You learn things you didn't know before, and I hate reinstalling everything after a reinstall.

I know what you mean. Nothing like a problem to enforce education. It usually takes me a month to get around to re-installing/tweaking every little thing. There's always an element of 'do it later, forget, remember, do it later....)

As for the virus, at least it was 'nice' enough to give you a wallpaper telling you your infected Good to hear you're winning the battle.

 

[johngalt]

Heh - I have learned almost all of my knowledge of computers just that way - I broke something and had to figure out how to fix it.

These days a full backup helps - a lot - but I install and uninstall so much stuff, including games (and demos) that every 6 months o so I go through the pains of a reinstall.

Glad you got yours back in working order. Now, backup, dangit!

 

[Mr GRiM]

I think I had the same virus you have and I was using AVG FREE at the time, downloaded the trial of live one care from microsoft and it removed it for me after a couple of reboots. I did uninstall it afterwards and now I am using avast and comodo never had any problems since

 

[MSPRISSYSMOM]

Yes, I can relate as well, mine was a Cyper-Defense to scan for viruses. At lease I use a back up disk everynight as having the medium version of Norton. I would rather pay the 59.99 than have to pay for headaches and going w/o a computer for a couple of days.

Hope it is resolved sooner than later.