Zac52009 Posted April 2, 2018 ID:1229095 Share Posted April 2, 2018 Hi, i have found "avenger" on my pc its a text file saying its 1.22TB is size and that seems ridiculous to me for a text file so i wanted to know how and if i should remove it Cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aura Posted April 2, 2018 ID:1229125 Share Posted April 2, 2018 Hi Zac52009 My name is Aura and I'll be assisting you with your malware issue. Since we'll be working together, you can call me Aura or Yoan, which is my real name, it's up to you! Now that we've broke the ice, I'll just ask you a few things during the time we'll be working together to clean your system and get it back to an operational state. As you'll notice, the logs we are asking for here are quite lenghty, so it's normal for me to not reply exactly after you post them. This is because I need some time to analyse them and then act accordingly. However, I'll always reply within 24 hours, 48 hours at most if something unexpected happens As long as I'm assisting you on Malwarebytes Forums, in this thread, I'll ask you to not seek assistance anywhere else for any issue related to the system we are working on. If you have an issue, question, etc. about your computer, please ask it in this thread and I'll assist you The same principle applies to any modifications you make to your system, I would like you to ask me before you do any manipulations that aren't in the instructions I posted. This is to ensure that we are operating in sync and I know exactly what's happening on your system If you aren't sure about an instruction I'm giving you, ask me about it. This is to ensure that the clean-up process goes without any issue. I'll answer you and even give you more precise instructions/explanations if you need. There's no shame in asking questions here, better be safe than sorry! If you don't reply to your thread within 3 days, I'll bump this thread to let you know that I'm waiting for you. If you don't reply after 5 days, it'll be closed. If you return after that period, you can send me a PM to get it unlocked and we'll continue where we left off; Since malware can work quickly, we want to get rid of them as fast as we can, before they make unknown changes to the system. This being said, I would appreciate if you could reply to this thread within 24 hours of me posting. This way, we'll have a good clean-up rhythm and the chances of complications will be reduced I'm against any form of pirated, illegal and counterfeit software and material. So if you have any installed on your system, I'll ask you to uninstall them right now. You don't have to tell me if you indeed had some or not, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. Plus, this would be against Malwarebytes Forums's rules In the end, you are the one asking for assistance here. So if you wish to go a different way during the clean-up, like format and reinstall Windows, you are free to do so. I would appreciate you to let me know about it first, and if you need, I can also assist you in the process I would appreciate if you were to stay with me until the end, which means, until I declare your system clean. Just because your system isn't behaving weirdly anymore, or is running better than before, it doesn't mean that the infection is completely goneThis being said, I have a full time job so sometimes it'll take longer for me to reply to you. Don't worry, you'll be my first priority as soon as I get home and have time to look at your thread This being said, it's time to clean-up some malware, so let's get started, shall we? Follow the instructions in the thread below, and provide me both FRST logs (FRST.txt and Addition.txt) and the Malwarebytes log. You can attach them in your next post, or copy/paste their content. https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/9573-im-infected-what-do-i-do-now/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zac52009 Posted April 2, 2018 Author ID:1229136 Share Posted April 2, 2018 Hi Aura, thank you for your response I can give it a go and try and figure my logs out, but at this point i am not sure if you'll be able to help as i am not the only one using this pc and its about 7 years old so weather it has acquired any "form of pirated, illegal and counterfeit software and material" over the years is a possibility and going through 7 years of stuff to figure that out what might be seems like it might be a longer process then the one you and i will prob be going through cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aura Posted April 2, 2018 ID:1229140 Share Posted April 2, 2018 If you can't do that, it's fine. Just go ahead with getting the FRST logs and post them here Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zac52009 Posted April 2, 2018 Author ID:1229160 Share Posted April 2, 2018 cool this is what it gave me Addition.txt FRST.txt Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aura Posted April 2, 2018 ID:1229161 Share Posted April 2, 2018 And where is that Avenger file supposed to be? Filename and filepath? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zac52009 Posted April 2, 2018 Author ID:1229162 Share Posted April 2, 2018 ive attached pics there is a text file which i haven't done anything to as its size concerned me. there is also a folder as the folder was empty i tried things, the folder lets you change the name but when you try to delete it, it causes explorer to not respond then closes both are located on the C drive and not in a sub folder or anything like that just directly popped up on the C drive Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aura Posted April 2, 2018 ID:1229168 Share Posted April 2, 2018 You can safely delete that avenger.txt file. It was created by The Avenger tool. A couple of security products uses it, though it is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. http://swandog46.geekstogo.com It seems that your system isn't up to date and could use a good clean-up. Do you want me to help you with that? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zac52009 Posted April 2, 2018 Author ID:1229172 Share Posted April 2, 2018 yer i was a bit unsure on that as of the size and when i looked it up some were saying you need it others were saying you didn't so yer thanks for clarification on that. i'll try and delete and see what happens. thanks for the link also could you elaborate on what you mean by out of date, such as what needs updating? windows update is quite finicky on this pc so i dont do them often as it causes issues Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aura Posted April 2, 2018 ID:1229174 Share Posted April 2, 2018 You're using Windows 7, yet you have Internet Explorer 8 installed. The latest version of Internet Explorer available on Windows 7 is Internet Explorer 11. So it tells me right away that you are missing Windows Updates, and quite important ones at that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zac52009 Posted April 2, 2018 Author ID:1229183 Share Posted April 2, 2018 do you have any advice on what i could possibly do about the folder? yer thats a fair point and i agree with you whole heartedly as i saw internet explorer as obsolete to say chrome or firefox so i just left it. I cant remember the last time updates were done as all the small amount of internet data i had would be used up do do them only to cause me issues. the main issue is i do a specific update and it will do more updates then asked and then install an update that causes an issue. i spent quite some time in the past installing and rebooting to find the update had removed my audio so uninstall the update audio came back. try installing updates again reboot no audio and repeat so eventually i just gave up Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zac52009 Posted April 2, 2018 Author ID:1229185 Share Posted April 2, 2018 so far so good tho thank you for resolving my main issue the "avenger.txt file" is for the moment gone thank you for that Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aura Posted April 2, 2018 ID:1229186 Share Posted April 2, 2018 It seems like the a folder also contains 257 folders inside. Can you list a few folders so I get a better idea of what it is exactly? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zac52009 Posted April 2, 2018 Author ID:1229189 Share Posted April 2, 2018 i apologize if that sounded rude in anyway, i wasn't shutting you down or anything. id love to update it and stuff but yer it just doesn't want to play ball on that one now you mention it that is weird i didn't notice that as i only saw the 3 folders that it shows, when u open to many folders in the chain it gives u an error. the folders arent named and empty and when opened just leads to another empty folder Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aura Posted April 2, 2018 ID:1229190 Share Posted April 2, 2018 In that case, yes, you can delete the a folder. Also, let's see what kind of clean-up we can do without touching your Windows Updates for now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zac52009 Posted April 2, 2018 Author ID:1229192 Share Posted April 2, 2018 thats the problem tho ive tried and when i delete it, it closes my computer and such and you have to reopen it, ive tried shift+delete, right click and delete cutting it, deleting folders within the folder and nothing ok cool sounds like a fair idea Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aura Posted April 2, 2018 ID:1229193 Share Posted April 2, 2018 Start by uninstalling these programs, as they are strongly outdated. Either uninstall them, or update them. Adobe Acrobat 4.0 Adobe Flash Player 11 ActiveX Adobe Flash Player 11 Plugin Adobe Flash Player 18 PPAPI Adobe Reader 9.5.5 Java(TM) 6 Update 22 Java(TM) 6 Update 26 (64-bit) Also, take this opportunity to go through your list of installed programs, and uninstall the ones you don't need anymore. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zac52009 Posted April 2, 2018 Author ID:1229197 Share Posted April 2, 2018 cool thank you all look into it yer thats also probably a good idea its getting pretty late where i am but thank you for all you help. cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aura Posted April 2, 2018 ID:1229205 Share Posted April 2, 2018 All good, I'll be waiting for your update Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aura Posted April 5, 2018 ID:1230053 Share Posted April 5, 2018 Hi Zac, Are you still with me? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zac52009 Posted April 5, 2018 Author ID:1230258 Share Posted April 5, 2018 Sorry its been a busy couple of days and our time zones are pretty different it seems. Things have been smoother since my hard drive has gained 70% of its space tho from deleting the text file. Not much has been done in the way of updates cause of time, but ive deleted some more things and removed/uninstalled programs i didn't need as suggested Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aura Posted April 6, 2018 ID:1230285 Share Posted April 6, 2018 Alright Can you run a new scan with FRST and provide me a fresh set of logs? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aura Posted April 8, 2018 ID:1230966 Share Posted April 8, 2018 Hi Zac, Are you still with me? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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