Hello everyone,
First of all, thank you for taking the time to read this fairly typical cry for help. Yesterday morning, my computer was attacked by a really nasty trojan or suite of trojans related to the Antivirus 2009 fraud... after 12 hours of running numerous antispyware programs and doing the typical fixes, I have my computer "mostly" back to normal, but my browsers still get redirected if I use Google and Spybot Search and Destroy is unable to install because it can't connect to the server it needs and AVG can't download any updates... Safari seems to be less affected than the others (I also have and use IE and Firefox), but it is nonetheless affected; for example, I was unable to download the most recent version of Hijackthis because no matter what I do, I'm not allowed to browse any source for it. Firefox is virtually useless, and IE refuses to let me do anything out of concern for my security (wow, thanks!). Some other internet programs work normally (Skype, MSN/Windows Live Messenger...)
For what it's worth, some of the fun programs it installed were called brastk.exe and mkrnl.exe along with scntqtdl.exe and rjwnw64s.exe and numerous other nuisances. I seem to have successfully uninstalled all of that and regained most of the normalcy except for the browser problem... I've done all of the suggested CoolWWWSearch.Smartsearch solutions, but none of that seems to be the problem. CWShredder, for example, finds nothing wrong.
I've attached my Hijackthis log, and if someone can take a look at it and give some advice, I'd be eternally grateful. I'm at my wits end and I have a lot of work to try to accomplish before tomorrow and lost a whole day screwing around with this thing...
Thanks again,
Eamon
First of all, thank you for taking the time to read this fairly typical cry for help. Yesterday morning, my computer was attacked by a really nasty trojan or suite of trojans related to the Antivirus 2009 fraud... after 12 hours of running numerous antispyware programs and doing the typical fixes, I have my computer "mostly" back to normal, but my browsers still get redirected if I use Google and Spybot Search and Destroy is unable to install because it can't connect to the server it needs and AVG can't download any updates... Safari seems to be less affected than the others (I also have and use IE and Firefox), but it is nonetheless affected; for example, I was unable to download the most recent version of Hijackthis because no matter what I do, I'm not allowed to browse any source for it. Firefox is virtually useless, and IE refuses to let me do anything out of concern for my security (wow, thanks!). Some other internet programs work normally (Skype, MSN/Windows Live Messenger...)
For what it's worth, some of the fun programs it installed were called brastk.exe and mkrnl.exe along with scntqtdl.exe and rjwnw64s.exe and numerous other nuisances. I seem to have successfully uninstalled all of that and regained most of the normalcy except for the browser problem... I've done all of the suggested CoolWWWSearch.Smartsearch solutions, but none of that seems to be the problem. CWShredder, for example, finds nothing wrong.
I've attached my Hijackthis log, and if someone can take a look at it and give some advice, I'd be eternally grateful. I'm at my wits end and I have a lot of work to try to accomplish before tomorrow and lost a whole day screwing around with this thing...
Thanks again,
Eamon