na
as you did the vista repair
it deletes all the windows files and reinstalls them
any real nasty stuff would have been in the system32 folder
id say ure good
Had a painful redirect virus on my pc recently. Main features were, obviously, redirected urls to other sites, blocked a few sites (anything with the word or link to sypbot apparently), installed a few hundred cookies, disabled windows defender in group settings, cropped task manager to only showing applications, made a few connections to the Ukraine.
Kaspersky couldn't detect it. Didn't have any running/startup processes that I could find with task manager or Hijack this. HOSTS file was clean. Ran a few progs, designed to detect google redirect and found nothing.
Spent about 3 days slowly cleaning up the pc, changing back settings in the registry it had changed, etc. Eventually it crashed the pc and kept rebooting over and over again...safe mode wouldn't work.
Did a repair with Vista disc and the bugger seems to have gone.
Any of these symptoms familiar to anyone? Pc seems to be running fine now, but wouldn't be suprised if there was something I missed.
Would do a format and reinstall, but would prefer not to as I've spent 100s of hours getting some old games to run on Vista.
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na
as you did the vista repair
it deletes all the windows files and reinstalls them
any real nasty stuff would have been in the system32 folder
id say ure good
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bucket (18-02-10)
Cheers Phil,
Wierd thing is, I checked the System32 folder straight away, sort files by date, and nothing new. That was what was so painful about the damn thing, couldn't find a single new .dll or.exe at all anywhere.
thanks
Had the same malaware last week, spent ages trying to get rid of it, sorry can't remember extactly what the file was but had to end the process then go to the folder containing the malaware file and deleted it quickly and that fixed it. Can't remember what I did cause I tried so many things, found it using google, under google search hijacked.
bucket (19-02-10)
Had a similar problem the other day.
Kept getting lots of popup adds and was not able to get to the Spybot web site to download or install the program.
Ended up installing and running Trojan Remover
Cleaned up and removed the one item found. Was then able to access the spybot website to download and install the latest spybot program. No more popups either.
Last edited by Greg; 19-02-10 at 10:14 AM.
bucket (19-02-10)
I've had many similar problems over the years, the most recent only last year.
Like Greg, I ran Trojan Remover and this located and fixed the problem.
Other anti-spyware programs including Spybot, would then run successfully.
Luckily, I have several computers with which I can access the internet, in order to search for and locate the relevant information, when such problems occur.
I regularly use Spybot and Malware Bytes to scan all hard drives as well as the normally running ZoneAlarm, Nod32 and Trojan Remover.
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