Inactive Corruption Lingers Following Removal of Malware

[will rz]

Greetings,



My laptop was infected with the Rogue Malware called Internet Security 2013. I had some success in removing it after using Malwarebytes, but there are corruptions that linger. For instance, my Microsoft Security Essentials was not recognizing the only user as the administrator. I fixed this by entirely removing MSE with Microsoft's fix it program; however, I'm now unable to reinstall MSE--even from a flash drive. It is an installation error (probably due to lingering corruption) and not a download error. Of second order is the problem with Internet Explorer. With the infection of the rogue software, IE9 began to refuse everything I tried to download (firefox[second browser], all antivirus/anti-malware software) as a virus and rejected it. I am able to use firefox (once again, ported from a flash drive) and download anything including software.



I have run several different programs

• Malwarebytes
• Security Check
• AdwCleaner
• RogueKiller
• Microsoft Fix It
• RKill
• DDS

Can attach logs.

Just curious if anyone has any ideas why there are lingering effects after removing the initial problem.

Thanks a lot.

 

[Broni]

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