Damn Virus! Need Help
 

McAfee caught a couple of files earlier tonight, but the next time I tried to open IE for something IE won't load anything. Firefox will not reopen at all when I click on it. HiJackThis starts to run and then closes and doesn't do a log file...then it won't let me reopen it.

Netscape works though (bleck)

Tried safe mode.. same thing. Tried system restore and it won't do it.. went back through several previous dates to no avail.

Any suggestions?

Running Ad-Aware right now..

Trend Housecall online scan accsessed via netscape?

Stop surfing questionable sites!

Have you ever noticed... Your PC runs just fine with no anti-virus / badware removal software etc...?

I used to run Norton, McAfee, Panda, AdAware, AVG and a few other different ones at various points, and always ended up having problems. For the past 5 years, I have not used any of them, and haven't had any issues with bad/malware. No strange popups, browser issues or anything.

Anyhow, my suggestion is...

Backup anything you can to disk. Reload Windows. Get rid of McAfee. Get rid of Netscape (That's just old. I don't even think they make that anymore.), then stop going to Russian porn sites and downloading free porn!

I rarely have issues.. The problem tonight came (at least the initial warnings through McAfee) when I was reviewing gallery submissions.....

I don't use netscape anymore.. haven't for eons, but it's still on this machine and right now the only working browser.

Go here http://esd.element5.com/demoreg.html...ctid=300324331
Download it to your PC
Reboot in safemode WITH network
Disable system restore (very important)
Remove your current antivirus
install kaspersky - update - do a full scan

you might have to reboot after you removed the old antivirus - do that and log in to Failsafe mode again.

I use Trend Micro Corporate software myself, but for Single users I reccomend Kaspersky

The most important thing is to keep your OS and Browser updated.

I browse russian blogs every day, and the AV goes of many times a day, but so far I have never been infected. Everything gets blocked before it get on my PC

With McAfee and Panda, most of the time it wont detect it before your computer is actually compromiced, and then its really to late.

Ad-Aware shut down in it's on midscan...

on to Trend Micro Houscall.. which so far is showing Adware_180Solutions as an issue...

damn... browser closed in midscan with housecall... sure it's this dang virus...

on to Kaspersky and safe mode... argghh

best thing is to reinstall!

I would recommend you to use Avast instead of McAfee or Kaspersky.
Avast is the best Antivirus I've used so far, and it's free for personal use :)

PK, if your computer will stay open you might want to get your essential files backed up asap and then try messing around with fixing it. Do you have another machine you can surf around on?

it can get messy but can usually be fixed.

make sure you look at you scheduled tasks also for unwanted things that keep installing it eeery hour or so... it will usually link files in sys32 (pc)

Dood... no russian pr0n... you trying to kill me over here... only decent production houses left....

Damn viruses. Need to surf less bad sites, for sure. That was the cause of my viruses.

one of the Top3 malware tools ever made for sure :thumbsup

well... it shut down Kaspersky on me too. Did a bit of googling and found combofix... ran it.. let it do it's thing.. Now I can run HiJackThis and get a log also.

I'm in IE now (Bleck) Firefox still isn't working.. but now instead of shutting right back down I get a minimized blank window that when I maximize is empty.

When I get it working (hopefully soon with some more googling), then I'll create a clean restore point.

Getting ready to try a run at Malwarebytes

I just had a "Bad Image" virus and had to reformat my new laptop :(

Thanks all..

I think the Kitty is back.

MalwareBytes short scan found a couple of things.. full scan after that was clean. Still couldn't get Firefox to open anything but a blank minimized window.. and not a full firefox window at that.. like a partial load. Tried to run the firefox profile manager to see if I could make a fresh profile and it told me it couldn't find the path.. tried an uninstall..nothing... it was like firefox wasn't finding itself where it was really located. Finally did a reinstall over the existing install and it must have fixed the problem.

Created a new restore point... odd thing.. all my previous restore points were gone. Wonder if ComboFix did that.

Meow.... Glad you're getting somewhere.

backup and format. Run all the windows updates, create system restore point, install your programs, create another system restore and you're good to go.

many of the viruses/malware will fuck you your system restore so you can't system restore. spyware doctor is good. search "malware forums" they have some good info.

I used to have all these problems but I switched to a mac 8 months ago and haven't had a single virus.

You need to backup your files and format your HD for sure.
Even if the problem is somewhat fixed right now. You just pointed out how old your current format is by stating you still have Netscape on it.
Just backup and format. Seriously.

well, sounds precisely like the package i had to eat lately ... same symptomes including AVsofts crashing/stopping midscan ... if its the same shit i caught, prepare to reinstall your OS :(

save time, check regedit for these words:
injector
total security
security 2009
UAC
and you will find a nasty bugger that blocks sites AND apps including ANY antispy/vir terms ... bundled with that, you'll find a NEW .PF file in your PREFETCH folder which reads like 145056423_Xbla.pf and 4 new .dlls and a .db recently created in system32/ ... also along with that you prolly caught NET.NET in your sytem32/ dir ... trust me, dont mess with it, it gets WORSE with every reboot and AV apps fail ... that is one seriously nasty bug