LarryP Posted January 5, 2010 ID:179970 Share Posted January 5, 2010 (hope i posted to the correct forum)First of all Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff miekiemoes Posted January 5, 2010 Staff ID:180048 Share Posted January 5, 2010 Hi,This doesn't look good at all here...Let's have a look and do the following..* Download Trend Micro Hijack This Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryP Posted January 6, 2010 Author ID:180523 Share Posted January 6, 2010 First of all, thanks so much for your help . . . as it appears that you folks are very busy now (does the new year trigger a rash of malware attacks?) - again, I truly think your product is the best, as it ahs saved me from quite a few reformats over the years, and when asked by others, I always recommend it . . . and as you will see below, it appears it once again has (almost) fixed me up Over the course of a night/day, it appears my kid's pc became more unstable when I restarted it this evening, so I had to try your directions in safe modeFYI - it appears that the link you provided for hijack this is no longer valid . .. although I first thought that my IE was hijacked and redirecting on my kids PC, even in safe mode . . . so before I went to my PC to try find/download hijack this, I tried your link for malware bytes and low and behold, it ran, it updated (excellent!) and found 4 things as per the log belowafter deletion of the 4 found objects, I rebooted as per your instructions . . . and the good news is that it booted much faster, with no error messages (previously we had multiple google installer errors), and mcafee appeared to start and was once again an item on my task bar . . . the bad news is that it appears that 'antivirus live' had survived through the initial malware bytes scan and had now taken over my kid's pc . . . and IE wouldn't go anywhere . . . and won't let me run mcafee or anything else (various system messages appeared) . . . however, I strangely felt good about this, since this appears to be a well known malware with known fixesso back to safe mode I go ... and it's not as safe as I thought, as IE is still high jacked and not letting me go anywhere ( Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff miekiemoes Posted January 6, 2010 Staff ID:180530 Share Posted January 6, 2010 Hi,the only problem I have is my IE won Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryP Posted January 6, 2010 Author ID:180791 Share Posted January 6, 2010 I must say, you are quite skilled at what you do . . . and amaze me with your virus skills and knowledge First of all, as per my closing comments in last night Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff miekiemoes Posted January 6, 2010 Staff ID:180808 Share Posted January 6, 2010 Hi,Well it looks like your latest scan comes up clean now. It sometimes requires more than one run in a row to deal with this stubborn variant.How are things now? Problems gone? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryP Posted January 7, 2010 Author ID:180964 Share Posted January 7, 2010 OK, it appears I Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff miekiemoes Posted January 7, 2010 Staff ID:180987 Share Posted January 7, 2010 Hi Larry,Great to hear and thank you for your kind words. And for anyone else reading this: don Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff miekiemoes Posted January 10, 2010 Staff ID:182373 Share Posted January 10, 2010 Since this issue is resolved I will close the thread to prevent others from posting here. If you need assistance please start your own topic and someone will be happy to assist you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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