Like alot of others here I got the AntivirusXP 2008 bug. I was able to restore my display tabs and change my desktop. Thought I had deleted the bug as it stopped sending pop ups and such. However my IE7 browser has been affected. Any searches in Yahoo, Google, etc, are all redirected to ad sites. Half the pages refuse to load at all. They all appear to go through an IP owned by "Conepuppy". Also after 20 or so minute the browser stops working all together and the only way to use it again is to reboot the system. All system restore points are gone. Ran AVG, McAfee, AdWare and a few others but nothing is being detected. Tried downloading a few other spyware programs but none will download properly or operate. Receive a message stating that are not valid SYSTEM32 files. Right now nothing else on my system seems to be affected except the browser. Can someone please tell me what I'm missing? I can run a hijack this scan if wanted.
My name is jpshortstuff. I would be glad to take a look at your log and help you with solving any malware problems. HijackThis logs can take a while to research, so please be patient and I'd be grateful if you would note the following:
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I thank you for your help. I resolved it last night. Actually the AntivirusXP was removed, however that wasn't what was causing the problems. Found a trojan called TDSSServ.sys. It was embedded in the System32 folder. Couldn't delete in safe mode. Had to download a program and force a delete of it. Again, thank you for your response.
This is quite a nasty infection. If you want me to check your computer for any more signs of malware, then I would be more than happy to do so. If you are happy that your computer is back to it's usual performance then please let me know and we can close this thread.
