Spyware Problems

[piklemeup]

Re-opening this for another of one of my problems. Could you just take a brief look at my HJT log and tell me what's wrong with it. AVG antivirus is telling me that I have a virus. The AVG antispyware is telling me that I have trackingcookie.paypal, trackingcookie.Com, and backdoor.hupigon.kg
I went through the virus removal thing, and did as many steps as possible.

I looked through the log, and as far as I could see, most of it looked legitimate, could you give me a second opinion.

 

[howard_hopkinso]

Hi piklemeup, I can`t see anything nasty in your HJT log. However, we need to see the following logfiles.

Go and read the Viruses/Spyware/Malware, preliminary removal instructions. Follow all the instructions exactly.

Post fresh HJT, AVG Antispyware and Combofix logs as attachments into this thread, only after doing the above.

Also, let me know the results of the AVG Antirootkit scan.

Regards Howard

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[piklemeup]

AVG Rootkit was clean, but the AVG Antispyware had some problems with it. Here are my new logs.

Thanks for your help

 

[howard_hopkinso]

Uninstall Messenger Plus! from add remove programmes in your control panel.

1. Please download The Avenger by Swandog46 from HERE. Save it to your Desktop and extract it.

2. Download the attached avengerscript.txt and save it to your desktop

Note: the above code was created specifically for this user. If you are not this user, do NOT follow these directions as they could damage the workings of your system.

3. Now, start The Avenger program by double clicking on its icon on your desktop.

Under "Script file to execute" choose "Load script from file".
Now click on the folder icon which will open a new window titled "open Script File"
navigate to the file you have just downloaded, click on it and press open
Now click on the Green Light to begin execution of the script
Answer "Yes" twice when prompted.

4. The Avenger will automatically do the following:

It will Restart your computer. ( In cases where the code to execute contains "Drivers to Unload", The Avenger will actually restart your system twice.)
On reboot, it will briefly open a black command window on your desktop, this is normal.
After the restart, it creates a log file that should open with the results of Avenger’s actions. This log file will be located at C:\avenger.txt
The Avenger will also have backed up all the files, etc., that you asked it to delete, and will have zipped them and moved the zip archives to C:\avenger\backup.zip.

5. Please attach the content of c:\avenger.txt into your reply, as well as fresh HJT and Combofix logs.

Let me know if you`re still having problems.

Regards Howard

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[piklemeup]

I need to run another AVG scan, but until I do, here are my logs.

 

[howard_hopkinso]

I don`t need to see another AVG Antispyware log.

Your system looks clean now.

Have HJT fix this inactive entry.

O2 - BHO: (no name) - {7E853D72-626A-48EC-A868-BA8D5E23E045} - (no file)

Turn off system restore.(XP/ME only) See how HERE.

Now, turn system restore back on. This will have deleted all your old restore points and any nasties that are in them. It will also have created a new, clean restore point.

If you have any further virus/spyware problems, please post in this thread.

Regards Howard

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[piklemeup]

Haha, when I said AVG, I meant anti virus, not anti spyware, sorry for not clarifying. I did a scan, and it still picked up a few things.

(sorry about the picture size, the resized version was unreadable)

There's the picture of what it picked up. "ff dl" is short for firefox downloads, I dump my downloads in there. I deleted the file, but I'm not sure it's gone yet. I'll run another scan and report back.


*Edit*
Just finished the AVG anti-virus scan, and it's clean.

 

[MrWonderful]

Another note on a related virus

Hello,

I worked on a machine on which AVG reported two infections:
-- both filenames were "tcpip.sys"
-- folders were windows\system32\drivers and windows\system32\dllcache
-- both viruses were "backdoor.hupigon.XTA"

This occurred on a well-updated Win-XP SP2 machine on 8/4/2007.

After AVG "healed" them, they were found again the next day, in System Restore folders.

After AVG "healed" those, there was no Internet connectivity. Windows Firewall could not be started, with the message "windows cannot start the windows firewall/internet connection sharing service".

The event log (Control panel / Admin Tools / Event Viewer) showed a missing file was causing errors. I searched disks for files named "tcpip.sys", based on a different post in TechSpot about the WinFW error message. A "tcpip.sys" was in the XP SP2 install materials, and, a file named "tcpip.sys.ORIGINAL" was in windows\system32\drivers, and, nothing was in windows\system32\dllcache . A scan showed the found files were uninfected. Using "FC" I found they were identical.

The Fix: After renaming "windows\system32\drivers\tcpip.sys.ORIGINAL" to "tcpip.sys", and rebooting, connectivity was restored and Windows Firewall started up.

Conjectures:
1) The technique that hupigon.XTA used to install itself caused Windows to keep the old version of "tcpip.sys" as the ".ORIGINAL" file
2) The technique that AVG used to "heal" the infection was to delete the file altogether.

HTH