drduke10978

Again, thank you for your time, I will be reading further into the subject on my own and, if I deem it necessary which I have not decided or assumed to be true despite previous assumptions made by you, hopefully be acquiring a helping hand elsewhere. Being insulted by forum moderators tends to leave me with little desire to interact with that forum, as is the case here. I will however quickly point out two things. 1. Saying "Don't take it personal." right before an insult does not actually immediately absolve you of being guilty of insulting someone. Perhaps you are used to children coming here with mommy's virus-riddled laptop after downloading porn from shady websites then demanding help, and assume this is true of everyone here, I don't know. Either way, I can assure you I am not a child, and at least in my opinion undeserving of being treated like one. 2. If the problem is that people come here for help while using the free version of the program and you are burned out on helping them, or whatever the case may be, then let me point out that until I lost my license key after a Windows reset and previous to the wipe, I was a paid premium customer, should that make a difference. Unfortunately for me, I have no idea what the email address I used for my previous forum account was, as honestly I had only used it once at most, a few years and two apartments ago. So I downloaded the free version. I don't say that so as to imply I'm going the route of "Let me speak to your manager." or some silliness. Merely to persuade you not to immediately jump to conclusions. Like this exact one I am making. The outcome can often be not worth it. Especially after one sentence, as you admitted to. Or do, it doesn't really matter to me at this point. As for your previous reply, I am afraid I have not read, nor will I be reading it. I feel being honest will help to avoid wasting either your time or mine.

Just to respond to your previous reply, which I had not seen before responding, before deeming me ready for the loony bin, perhaps understand that I was reading online about various types of malware for the last two weeks, since it has been years since I have had a device infected with anything beyond very mild adware. One of these types was a trojan found, in the wild mind you, to hide in the firmware as recently as October last year, and was the first case of this particular one being found outside of a lab or work environment. Therefore, logically while this particular trojan was highly unusual, I had thought it at least a remote possibility that particular infection could have been improved or simplified to allow those with fewer skills that would be interested in infecting others to use it. After all, technology advances with time and effort, and I don't see a reason to assume that is untrue about malware. All that said, I thought at the very least a warning from your very program saying a trojan was blocked from making an outside connection, twice, and then reading in various threads right here in this forum, was worth following up with someone in order to be certain. Apparently that is wrong of me, somehow. While perhaps I am being overly cautious, I believe I fully explained why, and also believe that reading about this very type of occurrence that you are dismissing as "not being seen for a long time" happening months ago, and possibly more recently would justify a little paranoia, given my tight budget. After all, I thought I was clear in that I wasn't assuming all of this to be true, merely doing my due diligence in finding out whether it is or not. If you were in the same shoes, perhaps your viewpoint would not be the same as it is currently. Anyway, otherwise thank you for your time and effort, and I will see myself off to another, less judgemental forum, on the admittedly off-chance something might still be wrong. Call it what you will, I suppose.

Well, that took less time than I thought. Here are the ESET results, once again negative. ESET.txt

I will do both of these immediately. Two things, first just to mention it, I did indeed run ESET yesterday with no luck, however I will run it again today as well. Second, if both of these should happen to take longer than, say 4 hours or so, I will have to send the results back tomorrow morning probably, as I do have work to do overnight (well, volunteer work anyway) that will keep me gone from my apartment until tomorrow morning. Is that why they don't actually say the name of it? It being an outbound connection attempt is what has me rattled, as in other threads I have read, that has meant a positive result for an infection of some type. God I hope I am just being paranoid then. They are the same notices I got before the wipe, although I should point out that besides those the only truly solid clues I had that something is/was wrong are that I had a remote connection from someone using Chrome (which I do not) show up as I was looking at synced devices in my Firefox profile, several various programs not running properly or sometimes at all pre-wipe, and some type of damage done (presumably from the bits of malware I found and removed pre-wipe) that on 4/11 caused my PC to eventually not be able to boot normally, only in Safe Mode, at which point I proceeded to begin the wipe. Oh, and just to mention it, I never actually removed (or found) the trojan, I was counting on the wipe to hopefully take care of it. I suppose the main thing I am concerned about is the trojan somehow hiding in firmware in order to redeploy post-wipe. As it is, I suspect it to have been on my PC for two weeks or so before originally deploying, having hitched a ride on an Android emulator I downloaded. Again, hopefully this is just paranoia on my end, as the other option is unappealing, at best. Even if I am, I may have to at least get a new HDD just to set my mind at ease if nothing else. I just don't know that I can trust financial information to this one. Anyway, here is the Microsoft Safety Scan results (oddly I had already downloaded it, but apparently forgot to actually run it), and I will send the results of the ESET scan as soon as I get them. msert.log

Hello. I seem to have a trojan that has survived a complete (partitions and all) HDD wipe and re-install of Windows 10, not to mention several resets and re-installs before that. This originally began, I believe, on the 30th of March, and I have tried so, so many things since, both before and after the complete wipe. Basically, I thought the best idea was to get rid of everything I could find that was suspicious or showing up on various anti-virus and -malware programs, until nothing showed. Very few things showed on any of those (including Malwarebytes, HitmanPro, AdwCleaner, and many more that I am having trouble remembering. While a complete novice with them, I have tried using various SysInternals tools as well. At this point, my only clue that anything is wrong is that since the wipe I have now had two more "Trojan blocked etc." reports from MWB, which I have included here, as well as current AdwCleaner, MWB Threat Scan, and FRST and Addition reports. At this point, I am gravely concerned that my only real option is to essentially chuck the PC in the garbage, which to be honest would be devastating for me financially, as I am disabled and on a fixed income. If I have to do that, basically I will have no entertainment or internet access for the next several months, as I can't afford to just run out and buy parts to build another. But I am stumped here, and have no idea whatsoever what the next step would be. I thought the wipe/re-install had worked, until the trojan reports from MWB popped up once again on my PC, two days after the re-install. I had already changed all passwords, and even my bank account information, all of which I am concerned could once again be compromised, before my debit card has even arrived. I hate admitting this, but I am desperate for a solution to this. For the last two weeks I have felt like I was going crazy trying to root this infection out. Then to believe I had finally fixed it only to see it reappear well, frankly it has defeated me. Any help whatsoever would be greatly appreciated, and thank you. 4.13.txt 4.14.txt Addition.txt AdwCleaner[S04].txt FRST.txt MWB4.14.txt