You will need to close/quit all web browser programs and disconnect from the Internet for much of the following, so you should print out these instructions or save them into a text file with Notepad.
1. Download and install these utilities (but do not run scans with them yet):
ewido Security Suite (trial version) - http://www.ewido.net/en/download/
Microsoft Anti-Spyware beta - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...&displaylang=en
- Open ewido. In the main screen, click "Update" and click "Start Update". After the update process completes, exit from Ewido.
- Open MS Antispyware beta. Make sure the "AntiSpyware Autoupdater" feature is enabled, and that it has downloaded the most current antispyware updates. Close the program after you've verified this.
- Open Spy Sweeper. Click on "Options" and then click on "Update Definitions" under the Program Options tab. Close the program once it is updated.
2. Download and install the CCleaner utility, but don't run it yet.
3. Run HijackTHis again, put a check mark next to the following entries, and then click the "Fix checked" button. Close HJT once it has finished performing the fixes:
R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page =
R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Local Page =
R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar,LinksFolderName =
R3 - Default URLSearchHook is missing
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Daily Weather Forecast] C:\Program Files\Daily Weather Forecast\weather.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Win32] C:\Win32\dll\Win32k.exe -starthide C:\Win32\dll\Win32.exe -local
4. Reboot into Safe Mode (you get to the safe mode boot option by hitting the F8 key as your computer is starting up).
5. Run CCleaner. It may take a while for the program to perform its cleaning, so be patient. Close the program when it has finished.
6. Run Spy Sweeper, ewido, and MS Antispyware beta consecutively; have the programs fix all malicious items they find.
When ewido finds the first malicious object on your system, it will ask you if it should clean it. When it asks this, put a checkmark in the lower left corner of the box that says "Perform action on all infections", then choose clean and click OK.
Save the log file that ewido will create after it finishes scanning; you'll be including that log in your next post here.
7. Open Windows Explorer, and in the Folder Options->View settings under the Tools menu, select "show hidden files and folders", and uncheck "Hide protected operating system files" and "Hide extentions for known file types".
- Delete the following two folders entirely:
C:\Program Files\Daily Weather Forecast
C:\Win32
8. Empty your Recycle Bin and reboot normally.
9. Run HijackThis again, and post the new log. Also post the log that ewido generated.
