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Title: DEVASTATION!
Post by: tanzanos on June 17, 2011, 10:17:15 AM
I had microsoft security essentials and it did not protect me from something that has infected my system. I uninstalled the security essentials and installed AVAST. I did a boot scan and it found a few things which were fixed. I also run malwarebytes and superantispyware. The problem persists:
I cannot get Security Center to start (something keeps disabling it) and also on both my Browsers iE and Firefox I keep getting redirected to various sites.

Here is a log from Highjackthis; PLEASE SOMEONE HELP!
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: Pondus on June 17, 2011, 01:00:50 PM
Follow this guide from our expert malware remover Essexboy
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=53253.0
( post the logs here in this topic and not in the guide )


To avoid using multiple post with copy and paste you have to attach the log`s
Lower left corner: Additional Options > Attach ( Malwarebytes log / OTS log ) save OTS log as ANSI

Essexboy will look at the logs when he arrive here later today...
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: tanzanos on June 17, 2011, 03:38:40 PM
Malware and superantispyware did not find anything. Avast found at bootscan the following: Trojan.Agent/Gen-Fraudpack.
I redid a boot scan and nothing else was found. Now I have this problem that even though I start security center in services it is after about 1 minute it becomes disabled and both my browsers redirect me to a site SECURE.BIDVERTISER.COM
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: Pondus on June 17, 2011, 04:14:57 PM
was Malwarebytes updated when you scanned?

follow the guide i linked to and post the OTS log
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: tanzanos on June 17, 2011, 04:21:26 PM
All the pertinent anti malware progs were updated. I have a log of Spybot that has some entries; can I post it here? Also Java stopped working!
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: Pondus on June 17, 2011, 04:29:27 PM
you may, but what Essexboy need is the OTS log


Quote
Modern malware will hide all, or most of itself from detection in a HijackThis log. HijackThis (HJT) is very popular, and if malware can hide from it, it has a better chance of survival. But mostly HJT fails to detect malware because, with the exception of some bug fixes and minor updates, it has not been updated in a long time.
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: tanzanos on June 17, 2011, 04:36:24 PM
Sorry for my ignorance but what is OTS?
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: Pondus on June 17, 2011, 04:41:34 PM
Diagnostic program like HijackThis only 100 times better

click the link in my first reply



her you can read about the older version OTL
http://www.geekstogo.com/otl-by-oldtimer-a-modern-replacement-for-hijackthis/
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: DavidR on June 17, 2011, 04:46:48 PM
you may, but what Essexboy need is the OTS log

Quote
Modern malware will hide all, or most of itself from detection in a HijackThis log. HijackThis (HJT) is very popular, and if malware can hide from it, it has a better chance of survival. But mostly HJT fails to detect malware because, with the exception of some bug fixes and minor updates, it has not been updated in a long time.

Not to mention HJT hasn't had an update in well over a year and any supposed security/analysis tool that isn't update is pretty much worthless.
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: tanzanos on June 17, 2011, 05:20:54 PM
I download OTL from sourceforge but the rar file does not contain an exe nor an install application?
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: Shiw Liang on June 17, 2011, 05:30:49 PM
Don't you have a software to extract it?
For example: 7-zip

You can download it here:
http://www.filehippo.com/download_7zip_32/
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: Pondus on June 17, 2011, 05:50:28 PM
If you use the link to the guide i posted  http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=53253.0   then scroll down to you see the blue OTS and click it
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: tanzanos on June 17, 2011, 06:03:16 PM
OK I have OTL running now; Will post the log when finished.
Thank you all very much for your help. I hope it works. By the way I had Zip installed but after the infection it disappeared?
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: essexboy on June 17, 2011, 06:21:56 PM
When you post the OTS log could you give me a brief synopsis of your problems
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: tanzanos on June 17, 2011, 06:30:43 PM
Since the infection: Security center keeps turning off even though I start it in services. Web Browsers keep rerouting me to SECURE.BIDVERTISER.COM

Hope someone can help me  ??? Thanks Guys!
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: essexboy on June 17, 2011, 06:41:00 PM
Let me know if there are any problems after this run

Start OTS. Copy/Paste the information in the quotebox below into the panel where it says "Paste fix here" and then click the Run Fix button.

Code: [Select]

[Unregister Dlls]
[Registry - Safe List]
< Internet Explorer ToolBars [HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-4149854431-98036347-1619213294-1001\] > -> HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-4149854431-98036347-1619213294-1001\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\
YN -> WebBrowser\\"{21FA44EF-376D-4D53-9B0F-8A89D3229068}" [HKLM] -> Reg Error: Key error. [Reg Error: Key error.]
YN -> WebBrowser\\"{D4027C7F-154A-4066-A1AD-4243D8127440}" [HKLM] -> Reg Error: Key error. [Reg Error: Key error.]
< MountPoints2 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER] > -> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2
YN -> \{5a3b6e40-f96d-11df-a960-806e6f6e6963}\shell\\"" -> [AutoRun]
YN -> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\{5a3b6e40-f96d-11df-a960-806e6f6e6963}\shell\AutoRun\command ->
YN -> \{5a3b6e40-f96d-11df-a960-806e6f6e6963}\shell\AutoRun\command\\"" -> [C:\Windows\system32\RunDLL32.EXE Shell32.DLL,ShellExec_RunDLL G:\Start.hta]
[Files/Folders - Modified Within 30 Days]
NY ->  Xwhh.job -> C:\Windows\tasks\Xwhh.job
[Files - No Company Name]
NY ->  Xwhh.job -> C:\Windows\tasks\Xwhh.job
NY ->  jbVCOnAtBW3OI.vbs -> C:\Users\yiannis\AppData\Roaming\jbVCOnAtBW3OI.vbs
NY ->  EWdIz4w.vbs -> C:\Users\yiannis\AppData\Roaming\EWdIz4w.vbs
NY ->  9bfPeGEvV9a4oCd.vbs -> C:\Users\yiannis\AppData\Roaming\9bfPeGEvV9a4oCd.vbs
NY ->  3Nx0EFJcDjB5Z.vbs -> C:\Users\yiannis\AppData\Roaming\3Nx0EFJcDjB5Z.vbs
NY ->  m6t5X4g.vbs -> C:\Users\yiannis\AppData\Roaming\m6t5X4g.vbs
[File - Lop Check]
NY ->  Xwhh.job -> C:\Windows\Tasks\Xwhh.job
[Custom Items]
:Files
ipconfig /flushdns /c
:end
[Empty Temp Folders]
[EmptyFlash]
[CreateRestorePoint]

The fix should only take a very short time. When the fix is completed a message box will popup telling you that it is finished. Click the Ok button and Notepad will open with a log of actions taken during the fix.  Post that information back here

I will review the information when it comes back in.

Depending on what the fix contains, this process may take some time and your desktop icons might disappear or other uncommon behavior may occur.

This is no sign of malfunction, do not panic!
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: tanzanos on June 17, 2011, 06:48:38 PM
Here it is and thanks for you help:

All Processes Killed
[Registry - Safe List]
Registry value HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-4149854431-98036347-1619213294-1001\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\WebBrowser\\{21FA44EF-376D-4D53-9B0F-8A89D3229068} deleted successfully.
Registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{21FA44EF-376D-4D53-9B0F-8A89D3229068}\ not found.
Registry value HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-4149854431-98036347-1619213294-1001\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\WebBrowser\\{D4027C7F-154A-4066-A1AD-4243D8127440} deleted successfully.
Registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{D4027C7F-154A-4066-A1AD-4243D8127440}\ not found.
Registry value HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\{5a3b6e40-f96d-11df-a960-806e6f6e6963}\shell\\ deleted successfully.
Registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\{5a3b6e40-f96d-11df-a960-806e6f6e6963}\shell\AutoRun\command\ deleted successfully.
Registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\{5a3b6e40-f96d-11df-a960-806e6f6e6963}\shell\AutoRun\command not found.
[Files/Folders - Modified Within 30 Days]
C:\Windows\tasks\Xwhh.job moved successfully.
[Files - No Company Name]
File C:\Windows\tasks\Xwhh.job not found!
C:\Users\yiannis\AppData\Roaming\jbVCOnAtBW3OI.vbs moved successfully.
C:\Users\yiannis\AppData\Roaming\EWdIz4w.vbs moved successfully.
C:\Users\yiannis\AppData\Roaming\9bfPeGEvV9a4oCd.vbs moved successfully.
C:\Users\yiannis\AppData\Roaming\3Nx0EFJcDjB5Z.vbs moved successfully.
C:\Users\yiannis\AppData\Roaming\m6t5X4g.vbs moved successfully.
[File - Lop Check]
File C:\Windows\Tasks\Xwhh.job not found!
[Custom Items]
========== FILES ==========
< ipconfig /flushdns /c >
Windows IP Configuration
Successfully flushed the DNS Resolver Cache.
C:\Users\yiannis\Desktop\cmd.bat deleted successfully.
C:\Users\yiannis\Desktop\cmd.txt deleted successfully.
[Empty Temp Folders]
 
 
User: All Users
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: tanzanos on June 17, 2011, 06:53:38 PM
OH! OH! Security center still turns off. If I instruct it to turn on it refuses and the only way to turn it on is through services but it reverts back to disable after about a minute.
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: essexboy on June 17, 2011, 06:55:48 PM
OK phase two now -

Download ComboFix from one of these locations:


Link 1 (http://www.forospyware.com/sUBs/ComboFix.exe)
Link 2 (http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/sUBs/ComboFix.exe)


* IMPORTANT !!! Save ComboFix.exe to your Desktop


When finished, it shall produce a log for you.  Please include the C:\ComboFix.txt in your next reply.
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: tanzanos on June 17, 2011, 07:09:47 PM
I disabled Avast but combofix keeps telling me that it is still active??? I disabled avast from the start menu and rebooted and although avast is not running combo insists it is?????
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: essexboy on June 17, 2011, 07:11:55 PM
Right click the orange blob, select shield control, disable for one hour and then run Combofix and ignore the warnings.  Do not let Avast sandbox any files during the run
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: tanzanos on June 17, 2011, 10:33:56 PM
Combo completed and made a log file. But the two problems still persist: security center disables and my browsers keep redirecting me to various shoddy sites?
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: essexboy on June 17, 2011, 11:54:17 PM
Could you post the log please as combofix does not recognise all malware
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: tanzanos on June 18, 2011, 07:15:09 AM
This must some nasty bug! I hope you can help me get rid of it :'( I also included the spybot log but in previous logs it found: Babylon toolbar, and 2 registry entries that disable the security center, and Funwebproducts.
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: essexboy on June 18, 2011, 03:42:16 PM
OK now thionking MBR infection, more specifically volsnap - but lets see

Download aswMBR.exe (http://public.avast.com/~gmerek/aswMBR.exe) ( 567KB ) to your desktop.
 
Double click the aswMBR.exe to run it
 
Click the "Scan" button to start scan
(http://public.avast.com/~gmerek/aswMBR1.png)
 
On completion of the scan click save log, save it to your desktop and post in your next reply
(http://public.avast.com/~gmerek/aswMBR2.png)
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: tanzanos on June 18, 2011, 06:05:48 PM
Hope a solution can be found. I appreciate immensely your help. Also Avast icon keeps disappearing from the toolbar and both my web brousers keep redirecting me to various sites like UNIBLUE, Casinos etc.

aswMBR version 0.9.6.399 Copyright(c) 2011 AVAST Software
Run date: 2011-06-18 19:00:40
-----------------------------
19:00:40.428    OS Version: Windows x64 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1
19:00:40.428    Number of processors: 8 586 0x1A04
19:00:40.428    ComputerName: YIANNIS-PC  UserName: yiannis
19:00:41.130    AVAST engine 6.0.1125 defs: 11061800
19:00:41.130    Initialize success
19:00:44.500    Disk 0 (boot) \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 -> \Device\Ide\IdeDeviceP2T0L0-2
19:00:44.500    Disk 0 Vendor: WDC_WD6400AAKS-22A7B2 01.03B01 Size: 610480MB BusType: 3
19:00:44.516    Disk 1  \Device\Harddisk1\DR1 -> \Device\Ide\IdeDeviceP3T1L0-7
19:00:44.516    Disk 1 Vendor: WDC_WD6400AAKS-22A7B2 01.03B01 Size: 610480MB BusType: 3
19:00:44.531    Disk 0 MBR read successfully
19:00:44.531    Disk 0 MBR scan
19:00:44.531    Disk 0 Windows 7 default MBR code
19:00:44.531    Service scanning
19:00:45.623    Disk 0 trace - called modules:
19:00:45.623    ntoskrnl.exe CLASSPNP.SYS disk.sys ACPI.sys >>UNKNOWN [0xfffffa80055b12c0]<<
19:00:45.623    1 nt!IofCallDriver -> \Device\Harddisk0\DR0[0xfffffa80065b5790]
19:00:45.623    3 CLASSPNP.SYS[fffff8800167243f] -> nt!IofCallDriver -> [0xfffffa8006396520]
19:00:45.623    5 ACPI.sys[fffff88000f067a1] -> nt!IofCallDriver -> \Device\Ide\IdeDeviceP2T0L0-2[0xfffffa800637e680]
19:00:45.623    \Driver\atapi[0xfffffa8006343730] -> IRP_MJ_CREATE -> 0xfffffa80055b12c0
19:00:45.639    AVAST engine scan C:\Windows\system32
19:01:47.805    Scan finished successfully
19:01:55.979    Disk 0 MBR has been saved successfully to "C:\Users\yiannis\Desktop\MBR.dat"
19:01:55.979    The log file has been saved successfully to "C:\Users\yiannis\Desktop\aswMBR.txt"
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: essexboy on June 18, 2011, 06:18:30 PM
Yep the unknown is there, this may not run - so could you let me know as I have a reserve tool if needed 

Please read carefully and follow these steps. 
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: tanzanos on June 18, 2011, 06:32:41 PM
It found nothing? The Security centre is still being disabled and I still have this very annoying redirecting bug in my browsers. See attached report.
Once again thank you for your assistance.
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: essexboy on June 18, 2011, 06:39:53 PM
Are the redirects in Firefox, IE or both ?

Also does anyone else using your router experience the same problem ?

Download Dr Web from here (https://www.freedrweb.com/download+cureit+free/?lng=en) Fill in the small form and download
 
It will download as an 8 digit file save it to your desktop

Restart in safe mode and run
Accept the enhanced version
Then run the quick scan
About halfway through you will be prompted to buy - just X the box closed
Once finished it will generate a log please attach that
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: tanzanos on June 18, 2011, 07:50:17 PM
Both browsers.

DRWeb reported after scanning that viruses were found. I have attached the report.
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: essexboy on June 18, 2011, 09:05:38 PM
What did it find ? as that is the setup and self check log
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: tanzanos on June 19, 2011, 07:08:27 AM
I don't know as it did not mention them. All it said was "Attention, viruses have been found during the scan RC (......". Also it does not complete in order to reach the point where a scan log is made. The report I posted is all that is generated and there are no other folders in the C/USERS/..../DR Web folder apart from the report I attached.  ??? Dr Web only runs after normal boot; It does not run properly in Safe boot mode.

I run tdsskiller and it found the following:

2011/06/19 09:22:19.0679 4196   Detected object count: 1
2011/06/19 09:22:19.0679 4196   Actual detected object count: 1
2011/06/19 09:22:40.0193 4196   sptd            (34f974f8b3c86de03a30dcbe79091c97) C:\Windows\system32\Drivers\sptd.sys
2011/06/19 09:22:40.0193 4196   Suspicious file (NoAccess): C:\Windows\system32\Drivers\sptd.sys. md5: 34f974f8b3c86de03a30dcbe79091c97
2011/06/19 09:22:40.0193 4196   C:\Windows\system32\Drivers\sptd.sys - copied to quarantine
2011/06/19 09:22:40.0208 4196   LockedFile.Multi.Generic(sptd) - User select action: Quarantine
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: tanzanos on June 19, 2011, 09:07:55 AM
I tried Dr web once more in safe mode and this time it completed the scan and found nothing? Before it had found viruses but could not complete the scan? This is very weird. Something is disabling security center. Something is hiding the Avast icon in the toolbar and only when I run Avast again does it show up. Something is redirecting on both web browsers?

I really need to kill this bug(s). A reformat is almost out of the question!

Someone must know how to find and DESTROY this bug?
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: essexboy on June 19, 2011, 11:36:13 AM
Lets review all your start up elements

Please RIGHT-CLICK HERE (http://www.silentrunners.org/Silent%20Runners.vbs) and Save As (in IE it's "Save Target As", in FF it's "Save Link As") to download Silent Runners.Do you want to skip supplementary searches?
click NO
[/list]
*NOTE* If you receive any warning message about scripts, please choose to allow the script to run.
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: tanzanos on June 19, 2011, 02:25:27 PM
I went to the registry that was pointed out by spybot and changed START from 3(manual start) to 2(automatic start) Then I uninstalled, rebooted and reinstalled Avast. now it seems that I no longer have a problem. Security centre is working. Avast is working, and I do not see any redirects in my browsers. I hope that this is not a temporary situation.

Please find attached the report you requested. EB, I truly wish to thank you for all the time and effort you have put into helping resolve my problem. Something must have worked!  ;D
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: essexboy on June 19, 2011, 03:22:31 PM
Sometimes that happens - the blindingly obvious is missed

That will be a permanent solution, but at least now you can be fairly confident that nothing is lurking

Leave it run for a day or so before I remove my tools just to be sure 
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: tanzanos on June 20, 2011, 06:57:06 AM
Thanks a million mate ;D I shall wait and will let you know if this bug returns! And now for some Government virus cleaning (we are cleaning our parliament off corrupt MPs)This is the worst type of virus! It corrupts all of society!

Once more thank you!
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: tanzanos on June 21, 2011, 07:52:10 AM
Something is not right! EB, this bug must have done something to my system; when I go to this link and scroll down to the bottom I see html code?????
http://www.icrass.com/component/content/article/34-demo-category/58-international-center-for-robotics-and-advanced-space-studies.html
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: DavidR on June 21, 2011, 01:55:39 PM
You can see it in firefox also, so it is more to do with botched code on the page not hiding that.
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: Asyn on June 21, 2011, 02:03:15 PM
You can see it in firefox also, so it is more to do with botched code on the page not hiding that.

Confirming this.
No idea, if it's bad coding or for purpose - no time to analyse.
But it is not related to your prior problem. ;)
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: tanzanos on June 26, 2011, 03:06:48 PM
TDSSKILLER has quarantined the following file:
[InfectedFile]
Type: Raw image
Src: C:\Windows\system32\Drivers\sptd.sys
md5: 34f974f8b3c86de03a30dcbe79091c97

Is this a false positive? If yes then how do I un-quarantine it?
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: essexboy on June 26, 2011, 03:57:38 PM
Do you use daemon tolls ?  If not then ignore it
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: Dch48 on June 26, 2011, 08:22:17 PM
You can see it in firefox also, so it is more to do with botched code on the page not hiding that.
It's like that in Chrome too.
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: tanzanos on June 27, 2011, 03:06:27 PM
Do you use daemon tolls ?  If not then ignore it
Yes I use Daemon tools. Some progs don't work now. How can I un quarantine the file?
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: essexboy on June 27, 2011, 07:12:02 PM
I would download a fresh copy from here to be on the safe side
http://www.duplexsecure.com/downloads
Title: Re: DEVASTATION!
Post by: tanzanos on June 27, 2011, 07:13:02 PM
Thanks M8 ;D