Hey all--I seem to be suffering from the same problem as mp1 described in another thread here (made my own thread since that seems to be procedure, sorry if that was in error). I have a ~five year old PC running Windows XP. Upon starting up my computer, or whenever I begin to run a program, I get an alert in the following format:
(Program name).exe - Bad Image
The application or DLL C:\Windows\system32\fojezida.dll is not a valid Windows Image. Please check this against your installation diskette.
When starting up my computer this appears twice while the screen is still black, before allowing me to select my user profile, twice after selecting the profile, and then seems to run down a long list of programs once it actually displays my desktop, forcing me to "OK" it repeatedly. Not such a big deal, but seeing as "fojezida.dll" doesn't turn up anything at all on Google, it would seem to be the work of some malware or other, and the last time I ignored a weird but seemingly harmless popup I wound up getting the machine wiped for an absurd amount of money, so.
Immediately before this started my computer froze (by which I mean, able to move the mouse but not to interact with anything), locking up from trying to do too many things at once... or at least, I assumed such. When I shut down the computer and started it back up I got the error messages, so it may have been whatever this thing is that caused it. Seemingly the straw the broke the camel's back as far as freezing goes was accessing urbandictionary.com, not sure if that site has a reputation for malware or not.
Anyway, I ran through the 8 steps as best I could. I seemed to run into a problem after updating Java where nothing would start up at all--couldn't get the control panel open to look at Add/Remove programs, or open anything in explorer, and the computer seemed to ignore me telling it to restart in much the same fashion. So I shut it down manually, which doesn't seem to have caused any problems. Additionally, I couldn't find one or two of the things that were suggested I turn off in that supplemental piece for my programs--I got all the shields in Spy Sweeper but no such luck on several of the others, and there was no guide to turning of Trend Micro so I decided to wing that one.
Anyway, both Spy Sweeper and Trend Micro have two files quarantined, but Trend Micro's are from a month or more ago, and I suspect that Spy Sweeper's are as well, but it doesn't date them. The two which Spy Sweeper currently has are "directrevenue-abetterinternet" and "virtumonde."
Additionally, Malware-Bytes did get rid of Trojan.vundo, but otherwise the various bits suggested in the 8 steps seem to not have turned anything up. The Bad Image errors persist, but I feel at least mildly more accomplished than if none of them had found anything. Anyway, I'll let the logs speak for themselves, in the interests of stopping this from becoming an even longer post.
Any help you're able to offer would be very much appreciated. In the meantime, I'm going to get my not-already-backed-up stuff onto my external hard drive, I think...
(Program name).exe - Bad Image
The application or DLL C:\Windows\system32\fojezida.dll is not a valid Windows Image. Please check this against your installation diskette.
When starting up my computer this appears twice while the screen is still black, before allowing me to select my user profile, twice after selecting the profile, and then seems to run down a long list of programs once it actually displays my desktop, forcing me to "OK" it repeatedly. Not such a big deal, but seeing as "fojezida.dll" doesn't turn up anything at all on Google, it would seem to be the work of some malware or other, and the last time I ignored a weird but seemingly harmless popup I wound up getting the machine wiped for an absurd amount of money, so.
Immediately before this started my computer froze (by which I mean, able to move the mouse but not to interact with anything), locking up from trying to do too many things at once... or at least, I assumed such. When I shut down the computer and started it back up I got the error messages, so it may have been whatever this thing is that caused it. Seemingly the straw the broke the camel's back as far as freezing goes was accessing urbandictionary.com, not sure if that site has a reputation for malware or not.
Anyway, I ran through the 8 steps as best I could. I seemed to run into a problem after updating Java where nothing would start up at all--couldn't get the control panel open to look at Add/Remove programs, or open anything in explorer, and the computer seemed to ignore me telling it to restart in much the same fashion. So I shut it down manually, which doesn't seem to have caused any problems. Additionally, I couldn't find one or two of the things that were suggested I turn off in that supplemental piece for my programs--I got all the shields in Spy Sweeper but no such luck on several of the others, and there was no guide to turning of Trend Micro so I decided to wing that one.
Anyway, both Spy Sweeper and Trend Micro have two files quarantined, but Trend Micro's are from a month or more ago, and I suspect that Spy Sweeper's are as well, but it doesn't date them. The two which Spy Sweeper currently has are "directrevenue-abetterinternet" and "virtumonde."
Additionally, Malware-Bytes did get rid of Trojan.vundo, but otherwise the various bits suggested in the 8 steps seem to not have turned anything up. The Bad Image errors persist, but I feel at least mildly more accomplished than if none of them had found anything. Anyway, I'll let the logs speak for themselves, in the interests of stopping this from becoming an even longer post.
Any help you're able to offer would be very much appreciated. In the meantime, I'm going to get my not-already-backed-up stuff onto my external hard drive, I think...
