I wish I had never seen this computer. My desk clerk's daughter who is 14 and downloads anything and everything has this system so ate up with some real baddies that I'm about to call her mom and tell her to bring me her win7 disc. Starting over is an option but if I can get rid of the baddies, that would work too.
After confirming system restore points were deleted, I disabled SRP's.
I started off in my bag of tricks with combofix. It's so ate up it would not let it run. Hmm
Next up was spybot2. No joy there either.
Next up malwarebytes. Took an hour to run and finish. 157 baddies found. Got rid of those.
Back to spybot2. Took 90 minutes to run. 156 baddies found. Got rid of those.
Back to combofix. Loaded up but whining about Norton running. Disabled Norton till next reboot. Finally got her going. Oh my stars and garters the stuff that it found. Took an hour. Cleared that out.
CCleaner up next. Jeeze...
Findjunkfiles up next. Not too bad. Finished pretty quick.
Just for S&G's stinger was brought in. Here's where it got ridiculous. Run time 15 hours, 8 minutes. Found nothing. Hmm the plot thickens.
Now all that was from normal mode. Keep in mind the best results come from running scans in safe mode. So that's where I went.
Same drill and got even more results. Cleared those out also.
So now I reboot and run them again. Just to be sure. Now here's the little trouble maker rearing it's unwanted head up again. It's called Default Tab Search Here. I have followed MS's instructions and several others in what to do to get rid of it. NO SOAP! There are so many games and *** useless programs on here that it's got to be hiding out in one of them. It has all the earmarks of a fairly smart virus. Hides, returns, and is annoying as it can get.
Problem is I don't know which game it came down in or I'd blow it to hades and back toot sweet. Last thing left to run is a root kit scan. Hopefully that will spot where it's hiding out so's I can kill it.
Other wise everything on this system will be considered contaminated and subject to being formatted in to oblivion.
Sad... I just put win7 on that 3 short months ago. "sigh"
After confirming system restore points were deleted, I disabled SRP's.
I started off in my bag of tricks with combofix. It's so ate up it would not let it run. Hmm
Next up was spybot2. No joy there either.
Next up malwarebytes. Took an hour to run and finish. 157 baddies found. Got rid of those.
Back to spybot2. Took 90 minutes to run. 156 baddies found. Got rid of those.
Back to combofix. Loaded up but whining about Norton running. Disabled Norton till next reboot. Finally got her going. Oh my stars and garters the stuff that it found. Took an hour. Cleared that out.
CCleaner up next. Jeeze...
Findjunkfiles up next. Not too bad. Finished pretty quick.
Just for S&G's stinger was brought in. Here's where it got ridiculous. Run time 15 hours, 8 minutes. Found nothing. Hmm the plot thickens.
Now all that was from normal mode. Keep in mind the best results come from running scans in safe mode. So that's where I went.
Same drill and got even more results. Cleared those out also.
So now I reboot and run them again. Just to be sure. Now here's the little trouble maker rearing it's unwanted head up again. It's called Default Tab Search Here. I have followed MS's instructions and several others in what to do to get rid of it. NO SOAP! There are so many games and *** useless programs on here that it's got to be hiding out in one of them. It has all the earmarks of a fairly smart virus. Hides, returns, and is annoying as it can get.
Problem is I don't know which game it came down in or I'd blow it to hades and back toot sweet. Last thing left to run is a root kit scan. Hopefully that will spot where it's hiding out so's I can kill it.
Other wise everything on this system will be considered contaminated and subject to being formatted in to oblivion.
Sad... I just put win7 on that 3 short months ago. "sigh"