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jeremy w

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  1. Thats really strange im having some of the same sypmtoms... I thought I had fixed it, the internet was actually working, but then I restarted the computer. When it turned on, after I choose which account log into it doesnt load any icons or the task bar (which I guess means explorer.exe didnt start). I used control alt delete to manually run explorer.exe. About 20 seconds after this, the computer restarted itself and when it came back on Windows loaded fine. Unfortunately it came back on and were back to the same problem. Ill try the netsh thing that you did and see if I have any luck... Meanwhile, is your computer still going fine?
  2. Well making a little bit of progress... I got the bad ones to uninstall in Device Manager by first going into the registry and deleting the registry files for the bad devices. But you were right... as soon as I uninstall, the bad one goes right back in. Any thoughts of how I can target the bug on my computer to get rid of it?
  3. I have tried all three of these with no succes... any other thoughts? Thanks again for your help.
  4. Thats where it really gets annoying... im sure its the same bug thats causing this but all of the system restore points are gone when I try to revert to an earlier date. My desktop, that should have dozens, if not hundreds, of restore points had none when I went on yesterday to try to set it back. My laptop was the same situation before I reformatted and reinstalled Windows, all of the system restore points were gone. I tried again last night after reinstalling windows and there was actually a few there, but when I went to restore it wouldnt let me click the "next" button, which im guessing is yet another result of this bug. It truly is unbelievable to think that there are people out there who devote all of their time to creating these types of things that are nothing but a nuisance to the rest of the world. Its so counter-productive it makes my head hurt. Much thanks to you all that are a big part of preventing and putting a stop to it!
  5. Yes both computers were connected to the internet at the time of scan. Im not using any sort of firewall and the router im using is an Airport Express. Is what I posted above not the correct scan log? I attached one to my first post, if this is not what you are looking for let me know where I can find the correct log. Thanks again.
  6. The desktop is a Dell only running Windows XP. Ive been running Windows under Boot Camp for about 9 months, and for some reason, that SMBus Controller has always shown up there, not sure why but the drivers Apple supplies for Windows dont handle that... But it does not show this on my desktop, which leads me to believe that the problem is not related to a lack of drivers. Any thoughts as to how MBAM discovered trojans and malware immediately following a fresh install of Windows? Im hoping this bug somehow didnt work its way into the hardware on both of my machines. Also, if someone were to hack into my system, would that enable them to work their way into all the computers on my network? This would make sense if my desktop and laptop were both infected by the same thing.
  7. Hi im having quite a problem here... My laptop has recently been infected with some pretty severe malware. After doing all kinds of scans with MBAM, Adaware, Spybot, HijackThis, SuperAntiSpyware, etc etc I realized there wasnt much hope due to the severe damage to my registry that was caused. I purchased the full version of MBAM, and I noticed after I did a thorough scan that my internet stopped working. Upon further investigation, I realized that somehow a series of extra network adapters had been installed (presumably by the malware). In particular, it created a duplicate version of my wireless network adapter. This additional driver made the network adapter essentially useless. My computer could no longer detect any wireless networks and I could not connect to the internet. I tried to uninstall the extra "ghost" hardware if you will, but I get an error saying it cannot be uninstalled because the system needs this device to start-up. After a lot of searching online, I couldn't come up with a solution. I am running a Macbook pro that uses Windows XP via Boot Camp, and when I boot up in OS X everything runs flawlessly. Its too bad I use a lot of software that is Windows-based otherwise id be home free in OS X. So ultimately I came to the decision there was no better option than to completely delete the Windows partition, recreate it using the Boot Camp Utility in OS X, reformat the hard drive to NTFS, then reinstall windows to ensure this malware was COMPLETELY removed. Sounds like a flawless plan right? Well I did all of that and the very first thing I did in my new fresh copy of Windows was install MBAM. Then I thought, what the hell, I might as well do a scan just for the heck of it. You have to figure, on a BRAND new copy of Windows XP without ever surfing the web or installing anything the machine HAS to be 100% malware free. I was connected to my wireless network however at this point. Well somehow MBAM found a slew of trojans and such... After the befuddlement wore off, I then realized my network adapter stopped working yet again. I went into the device manager, and I had the exact same problem as before... new duplicate ghost hardware shows up that blocks my good device from working. I will include a screen shot of this problem below. Notice there are two Broadcom devices shown. The top one is the good one, and the bad one is in the red box. For some reason it has the exact same name yet adds the "-" on the end of it. I will also attach the MBAM log that resulted from this scan. To further the mystery, I also have a desktop that I decided I would scan. I installed MBAM on it and performed a full scan. I hadnt done any sort of virus scan on this machine in quite some time, so as expected, there was many, many instances found that MBAM cleaned up. After the scan and reboot, what do you know... my desktop did the EXACT same thing as my laptop did. All sorts of new network adapters that block the good ones from working. I dont know if somehow my desktop and laptop got infected by the same bug that is causing this, or it has something to do with the result of an MBAM scan, but I cant fix this problem for the life of me. Its driving me insane because I essentially have two useless internet-less computers that cannot be fixed. If there is anything you can do to help it would be GREATLY appreciated! I am very lost at this point as to where to go and what to do... Thanks! mbam_log_2009_02_05__01_06_21_.txt mbam_log_2009_02_05__01_06_21_.txt
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