Some malware has gotten a serious hold of my PC, can't get rid of it

[elsa89]

Hey, I'm hoping to get some help with my PC. I'm kinda convinced I caught some virus a couple of days ago and I can't get rid of it.

First noticed that the PC worked a looooot slower. I couldn't update Avista (my anti-virus programme) and neither could I end some unidentified processes in the task manager.

Yesterday I had no internet connection what so ever but today all of a sudden I got the connection back. Now some kind of thing popped up (not sure it really was Vista or the virus) telling me that there are two computer using the same IP-adress...?! Computer is still way too slow but I can surf the internet as long as i don't watch playTV and so on.

I'm attaching my HiJackthis-log and hoping someone can help me with what's wrong here! I've ran two complete virus scans in Avista and it showed nothing. When I ran HiJackthis something popped up telling me it couldn't reach the host files. Have no idea what that means.

Really thankful for some help! What do I do? I have no restoration disc...

hijackthis.log

[MrCharlie]

Welcome to the forum, please start at the link below:

http://forums.malwar...?showtopic=9573

Post back the 2 logs here.....DDS.txt and Attach.txt

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Next.......

Please remove any usb or external drives from the computer before you run this scan!

Quit all running programs.

Please download and run RogueKiller to your desktop.

For Windows XP, double-click to start.

For Vista or Windows 7, do a right-click on the program, select Run as Administrator to start, & when prompted Allow to run.

Click Scan to scan the system.

When the scan completes > Close out the program > Don't Fix anything!

Don't run any other options, they're not all bad!!!!!!!

Post back the report which should be located on your desktop.

MrC

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[elsa89]

Thanks a lot! I'll try it tomorrow and see how it works!

[MrCharlie]

They're only scans so I can determine any problems with the system, they won't fix anything.

Please post all the logs when ready.

MrC

[elsa89]

Are these the correct log files?

attach.txt

dds.txt

[elsa89]

Here's the RougeKiller report

RKreport1_S_11152012_02d0041.txt

[MrCharlie]

Before we proceed further, please uninstall or disable BitTorrent and BitTorrentBar Toolbar and any other peer-to-peer filesharing app.

Continued use of filesharing or ill-advised downloads will surely re-infect your system.

Risks of File-Sharing Technology.

P2P file sharing: Know the risks

It's also against the forums policy concerning P2P programs:

http://forums.malwar...showtopic=97700

Please also uninstall: >> Conduit Engine

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Next...............

Please download AdwCleaner from here and save it on your Desktop.

• Close all open programs and internet browsers.
  
• Right-click on adwcleaner.exe and select Run As Administrator to launch the application. (XP just double click to run)
  
• Click on Delete.
  
• Confirm each time with Ok if asked.
  
• Your computer will be rebooted automatically. A text file will open after the restart.
  
• Please post the content of that logfile with your next answer.
  
• You can find the logfile at C:\AdwCleaner[s1].txt as well.
  

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Last..............

Please create a new system restore point before running Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.

MBAR tutorial

Download Malwarebytes Anti-Rootkit from HERE

• Unzip the contents to a folder in a convenient location.
  
• Open the folder where the contents were unzipped and run mbar.exe
  
• Follow the instructions in the wizard to update and allow the program to scan your computer for threats.
  
• Click on the Cleanup button to remove any threats and reboot if prompted to do so.
  
• Wait while the system shuts down and the cleanup process is performed.
  
• Perform another scan with Malwarebytes Anti-Rootkit to verify that no threats remain. If they do, then click Cleanup once more and repeat the process.
  
• When done, please post the two logs produced they will be in the MBAR folder..... mbar-log.txt and system-log.txt
  

To attach a log if needed:

Bottom right corner of this page.

New window that comes up.

MrC

[elsa89]

Can't find conduit engine, what is that?

[MrCharlie]

It's adware, running AdwCleaner will take care of it.

Please continue on with instructions.

MrC

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