BUMP! (sorry)

Is that it? Am I cleansed now? ;D

Oops! Sorry!

I re-ran the ESET with the cleaner box checked and it found 2 lots of bredolab.AA trojan in my Temp folder. It says it couldn't clean them so it deleted them...

As for the AVG, I...

Ay up, Judy!

Thanks for getting back to me!

I did as you suggested and here for your entertainment and pleasure (HA!) are the logs...

Oh for some reason I can't seem to attach the HJT log...

Ahoy there! Its been a while thank god, but AVG just spotted this... Trojan horse Downloader.Generic8.AFYY
Just wondering if its really a threat or if maybe its scare tactics now that the free...

:icon_redface: ...

Erm, heh heh heh...:icon_redface:

I sorted the power problem... I'd pulled out the power lead for the processor cooling fan while changing the drives... Don't think I fried...

:icon_cry: Oh Dear...

Fair play to ye! I followed your instructions and it worked grand... It got as far as formatting the new master HDD and I went of for a nice cup of tea while it was...

Aha! Gotcha!:icon_cheesygrin:

Right... The slave is st to slave (no jumpers present)
The Master is set to cable select
The dvd RW is also cable select
The dvd rom I can't see but I'd say it...

Erm.... ? Cable select? That's outside my field of understanding!:|

I've read your advice a few times Fren but it just won't sink in... Sorry for being such an eejit, but can you explain it step...

Ah its never as simple eh?

I can't afford a retail copy of windows... so can I swap physically the two drives over, set the cuurent slave to master and vice versa, and still use the restore cd? If...

Go raibh maith agat!

Erm, not sure how cmos works but I think the drive could be dead. Tried to use the chkdsk from the restore cd but it said the disk had unrecoverable errors... do you know if I...

Ah. Yes... Another dead machine I'm afraid... When I start my Compaq Presario 6000 series desktop all I get is something like "Disk read error press ctrl, alt, delete to restart."

There was a blue...

Thanks!

Yeah tried the ol defrag thing and I use CCleaner very regularly.... I guess the old girl's just getting a bit senile... Must save up a few bob and get a zippy wee strumpet!

Adh mor ort...

Yup sorry geezers and geezesses...

I've run AVG antivirus and anti spy and adaware but this (old) 'puter is just getting slower and s l o w e r ...

I'd appreciate yous scraping your way through...

Wow that was quick Chaky! Thanks for the quick reply... There has been some news since then...

We bought the thing one year and 17 days ago and when I told the guy the story he took it back for...

Ay up chucks! My wife's toshiba laptop (satellite M40 - 313 windows XP SP2 1 Gb RAM etc just over 1 year old) has suddenly died. She went to turn it on and all it does is beep pathetically, whirr a...

Am I the only one who found that installing X11 from the install disks needed "Pacifist" 3rd party (4th party?) software just to find the X11 software?!

As a mac newbie, before today I had no...

Ah... Ahem, Sorry....

Just read ncgators post and it sorted me out!

Thanks a million Daniweb.

Just being there is enough!

I have a similar problem to the person whose "kids did it"...

My wee fella's only 5 but somehow after he got up early and tried shutting down the PC with the "on" button... found a message asking...

Yup! that's right! is ewido doing archaeology now or er what exactly?

Any ideas on this one without you having to do all that lovely messing about with HJT logs would be great. Here's what Ewido...

Ay up, chums!

I tried (like a fool) to use the connections wizard to set up a firewire connection between my home desktop and my work laptop...

I did the laptop first and had no bother but the...

Ay up Tayspen!

Thanks a million for all your help... You folks at Daniweb are flippin great! I still haven't worked out why you do it, but you do it well!

Good luck with everyone elses problems...

Ay up, tayspen!

Sorry its been a while... been a mad couple of days...

Anyway, C\WINDOWS\services.exe is gone or I couldn't find it anyway :)

HJT couldn't find the windows updater either, I...

I just downloaded the lspfix but I'm not really sure what I'm doing, I need sleep now so I'll look at it tomorrow...

Slan lat!

Ay up, Tayspen... I managed to work out a way of getting ewido onto the other laptop without using the net...

Wow! ewido really kicks! It asked if I wasnted to delete a couple of things that had...

Thanks Tayspen!

I got as far as "empty recycle bin" tonight as I can only access the web by wireless, this evening, which i don't have on the work laptop...

I really appreciate you going...

Ay up Tayspen!

Thanks for the quick reply... I know you just Love these HJT logs so here goes...

Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 15:37:59, on 3/23/2006
Platform: Windows XP SP1...

:-| Norton found this download trojan 11 times on my laptop and can't clean it even on safe mode... When I set up our new broadband connection at work I was horrified to get a porn links page popup...

Cheers, mate!

So long and thanks for all the fish...

Adh mor ort agus slan!

Ay up again! Erm...problem free eh? :rolleyes: I think I'll give it a miss... Can Microsoft do a test to see if I've got all the available security patches without just telling me to upgrade to SP2?...

Ay up! I think that's it sorted! Thanks a million!

I'm planning on wiping the new second hand hard disc anyway so hopefully that's the end of that.

One other thing. Is service pack 2 still...

Erm ay up fellows...

I recently installed a used hard drive and it seems to have this on it...

any help on getting rid of the fecker?

Go raibh maith agat agus adh mor ort! :confused:

:o Ah... Ahem!... Er sorry about that... my computer is my friend,my computer is my friend,my computer is my friend,my computer is my friend,my computer is my friend,my computer is my friend, (repeat...

Uh oh...

I was checking system 32 for suspicious dlls by arranging them bt date modified and came up with vsconfig.xml...

I googled it and symantec seem to think its to do with backdoorIRC...

Nice one crunchie!

Does this mean I'm clean now? I can hardly believe it , it seems like a LONG time since all this started...

Thanks for all the patience and help and happy birthday to all you...

Ay up, Crunchie!

Back again, sorry I didn't reply sooner but it's been a bit of a mad weekend. Lots of kids and helping a friend move house...

Anyway I sussed the silent runners thing and...

Ay up!

I did everything that steosaur suggested there. Nowt suspicious turned up apart from some stuuf from ad companies in the personal profile temp folder. I deleted everything inthere...

Ay up!

I just did the shoot the messenger thing. When I told Zone alarm to make Messenger ask for net access it promptly did...

Its just called messenger not windows mesenger or msn messenger...

Ay up, Crunchie!

I think that's just about sorted it... Messenger still asks for access so I tink there's a few bits of the trojan around.

I've got the XP disc now so in theory Can I uninstall...

Ay up and cead mile failte!

Its the morning again... I've just enabled the connection and unlocked the fire wall. I couldn't get web access for a while and there was an extra program running icon...

The files I've deleted from the eScan log were all created back at the beginning of December (5/12/04 23:03) This is a fair while ago so I'll leave this option as a later resort...

The infected...