Steps taken so far...
Ad-Aware Pro... found nothing
Counterspy... found nothing
McAfee Virus scan (out of date defs can't update) ... found nothing
Ran ATF Cleaner successfully
This spyware won't let me to go kapersky's website to run their scanner
I also can't install hijackthis v2, but 1.99.1 worked
Main symptom is super slow internet and computer and a "Windows Security Center" message (which looks fake) popping up every 10 minutes or so saying I've been infected with Spyware.iSpyware and it can read keystrokes and take screenshots and steal information, and wants me to click "Enable Protection" which sends me to a webpage to purchace some spyware remover.
Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 9:43:19 AM, on 12/6/2008
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.6001.18241)
Reboot your computer in "Safe Mode" using the F8 method. To do this, restart your computer and before the Windows icon appears press the F8 key repeatedly. A menu will appear with several options. Use the arrow keys to navigate and select the option to run Windows in "Safe Mode with Networking".
Double-click mbam-setup.exe and follow the prompts to install the program.
? At the end, be sure a checkmark is placed next to Update Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware and Launch Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, then click Finish. ? If an update is found, it will download and install the latest version.
? Once the program has loaded, select Perform full scan, then click Scan. ? When the scan is complete, click OK, then Show Results to view the results.
? Make sure that everything is checked, and click Remove Selected. <-- Don't forget this. ? When completed, a log will open in Notepad. Please save it to a convenient location. The log can also be found here: C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\Malwarebytes\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware\Logs\log-date.txt
Reboot into Normal Mode..
? Please post the MBAM Log and a fresh HJT log in your next reply.
After running MBAM you should be able to download and install the latest ver. Of HJT ->TrendMicro HijackThis.exe (HJT)
There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading; The few who learn by observation;
The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves...
So I installed the malwarebytes program, but I had to download it from download.com because this spyware won't let me navigate to any of the sites like malwarebytes.org or kapersky's website or even adaware's website. It hung up at the end of installation and then would run after restart... it wouldn't uninstall either. I finally killed some processes and it uninstalled but I can't get it to install at all now.
I think I'm just going to give up. I'm out of school after tomorrow and I can just save all my stuff to my external drive and reformat. I guess it's about time for a good cleaning anyway. Thanks for your help.
There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading; The few who learn by observation;
The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves...
