jonnycowbells
Posts: 8 +0
Hi,
Hoping somebody can help me out. I got an infection on an XP Pro SP2 Dell Latitude a few weeks back - first noticed it when search results (Google, MSN for sure, others not tried) were hijacked to send me to malware pages (though right-click, open in new window got around this). Followed swiftly by a fake alert infection. Task manager and anti-virus became disabled. Everything got generally sluggish.
Has McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.0.0 on it with up-to-date definitions as far as I know but didn't spot anything. Installed Mbam which found a lot. Since then, been updating and running both (often in Safe mode), but the infection seems persistent! Reached a head this week when Mbam would only start on renaming the .exe and starting from 'Run...' on Start menu.
Followed eight steps. Quite painful in places - had to use the rename trick above for HijackThis. SuperAntispyware caused blue-screen, so rebooted in safe mode whereupon SAS wouldn't start. Reran mbam (after a rename) to see if it could clear something out to let SAS run - this worked and SAS found a bunch of stuff.
Less sluggish now so hopefully I'm getting somewhere, but would appreciate expert help in ironing out anything that's left.
Many thanks in advance.
Cheers,
Matt
Hoping somebody can help me out. I got an infection on an XP Pro SP2 Dell Latitude a few weeks back - first noticed it when search results (Google, MSN for sure, others not tried) were hijacked to send me to malware pages (though right-click, open in new window got around this). Followed swiftly by a fake alert infection. Task manager and anti-virus became disabled. Everything got generally sluggish.
Has McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.0.0 on it with up-to-date definitions as far as I know but didn't spot anything. Installed Mbam which found a lot. Since then, been updating and running both (often in Safe mode), but the infection seems persistent! Reached a head this week when Mbam would only start on renaming the .exe and starting from 'Run...' on Start menu.
Followed eight steps. Quite painful in places - had to use the rename trick above for HijackThis. SuperAntispyware caused blue-screen, so rebooted in safe mode whereupon SAS wouldn't start. Reran mbam (after a rename) to see if it could clear something out to let SAS run - this worked and SAS found a bunch of stuff.
Less sluggish now so hopefully I'm getting somewhere, but would appreciate expert help in ironing out anything that's left.
Many thanks in advance.
Cheers,
Matt