Ok! My Computer is an Athlon 1.6, 512 ram running Windows 2000 OS. I was running chkdsk on my G: drive when the power went out. The drive is a WD 160 Gig and is NTFS. Now when I try to access the in drive in windows it says it is corrupt and shows a file size of 0. I had about 60 gigs...
I did a search for notepad.exe and found notepad.exe.bak in C:\windows and C:\windows\system32. I renamed the file in system32 to notepad.exe and notepad is now back and seems to be working fine!
I was finally able to rid my computer of the dreaded cws.searchx using this method. http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=26534 I followed Buckshots instructions in his post. And it worked!!!!! Spywareblaster is back up and so far so good! Turns out my little nasty was in here...
We'll this is getting interesting, but not in a good way! When I delete the suspicious files in the hijack log the virus backs up the files on my desktop. Ex. 3 files deleted, 3 files backed-up. As for my notepad.exe file, it has been re-named as note.pad.exe.bak. So its there in the Windows...
I have now noticed that notepad is no more! What can go wrong next? Can someone tell me where notepad went? Thanks to all who respond! Below is the full hijack log:
Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7
Scan saved at 11:26:43 PM, on 6/26/2004
Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet...
My home page has been hijacked on my HP Pavillion notebook. I am running Win XP home using IE 6. Norton notified me right away of the infection but could not clean it. I then started getting pop-ups telling me I had been infected. Then noticed my home page had been changed to a search page...
Turns out this was the problem...HKLM\..\Run: [system32.dll] C:\WINDOWS\system\systeminit.exe Now its gone and so is my trojan!! I wish to thank everyone who gave their input!
Ok, so far I've tried Spybot-Ad-Aware( both detect and delete the thing but it comes back on re-boot), CWS Shredder (does not detect), CWS Smart killer removal tool (does not detect), highjack this (detects-see log above) AVG and Norton(both do not detect). Also ran Spywareblaster- although I...
Thanks to all who have responded...below is a copy of my highjack this scan. If I delete the correct items in the scan will this kill it or will again be re-generated whwn windows starts. Spy-bot and Ad-Aware both said it was gone only to return upon boot-up. I need a pro to look below and...
I believe my Notebook computer has been highjacked by an advertising trojan virus. (I have an HP Pavillion Notebook computer. 1.8 Gig P4 and 512DDR ram running Windows XP. Browser is Explorer 6.) Norton notified me of the infection but by then it was too late. The trojan has changed my...
Having a problem with an Hp Notebook running Windows XP home. I cannot connect wirelessly unless I uninstall and reinstall the driver for the internal wireless card every time after boot-up! After I do so and install WEP key everything is fine until I boot up the next time. I get the red X...
Got the same problem but its a home page issue. Seems a search engine called Clearfind.com has taken refuge as my homepage. Only problem is under internet options its greyed out so I can't change it! I've tried spy-bot and ad-aware but its still there! Running Windows XP Home on a P4 1.4 GHZ...
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