chrismiscms

Hello again Kahdah, Sorry for not replying sooner - upon reboot after using the recovery console, Windows threw up a crash log saying I did not have permissions to edit the registry which stumped me for a bit, but on Wednesday this week I copied the recovery console utilities to a USB stick and then re-ran the whole process from the USB stick which seems to wipe everything (including the original install of recovery console) from the HDD. After that, I am pleased to report that the machine fired up again brilliantly and is now happily working away. Thanks for your help, Chris. P.S. Have a Merry Christmas.

Hi Kahdah, Apologies for not replying sooner - AVG2011 wouldn't deinstall using traditional methods but I found a program on the web from AVG that forces removal this morning. I ran Combofix this morning and it detected inections in the Master Boot Record and needed to restart, however before Restart actually completed once I OKd it, Blue-Screen came up after which I manually powered down and on restarting the Recovery Console launched OK - never done that before since the virus first appeared. I backed up all my data a few days ago and nothing has changed on the PC since so I have confirmed the Full Destructive Recovery to go ahead - all files will be wiped and PC will be reformatted/ rebuilt - I assume this is because of the Windows Recovery Install which took place thanks to Combofix. I will update you later on, but it looks like the problem MIGHT be on the way to being fixed.

Hi Kahdah, thanks for your assistance - the info from OTL was too long to include in a post, even when I tried splitting into 2 (one for each txt file), so I have attached the files. Let me know if you'd prefer me to email them to you as text-based emails instead. OTL.Txt Extras.Txt

Hi there, I have a netbook which has become quite badly infected in the last few weeks - I have always had AVG installed on my computers and this is the first time it has failed me. I installed AVG Free Edition 2011 a couple of months ago and as soon as it was on, it alerted a couple of problems. The problems it has been finding are: Win32/Patched.FR - affects Winlogon.exe and seems to have created a couple of Winlogon duplicates Win32/Patched.FS - affects Explorer.exe and seems to have created a couple of Explorer duplicates Trpjan horse Patched_c.JHC - not found in most recent AVG scan, but was in the last one (ran on Friday) and was affecting either Winlogon or Explorer I did switch over to a fresh copy of Explorer.exe using RegEdit but I can't delete the old virused one. Had planned to do a factory rebuild using the pre-loaded recovery tools - there is an option to reformat with this - however, when I ran it, the Netbook restarted (as expected) and then after starting the recovery popped up an error on the dos Blue-screen (ie doesn't even get back into Windows OR the Recovery Program) saying "c0000137 privilege failed". I can get the Netbook to load into Windows again OK, but obviously recovery is not (currently at least) an option. I'm guessing the virus have come down when we've streamed something, but not sure what. Hoping someone can offer some assistance, Thanks, Chris.