Re: Regenerative Virus... is there any cure?

From: Lawrence Abrams (grinler-AT=bleepingcomputer.com)
Date: 07/12/04 

Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:01:13 -0400

"JayK" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2aed501c467c9$ec9d0f60$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Hey, I have this weird virus on my computer that when I go
> into internet explorer, after being on for like five
> minutes, a full page ad takes over my screen. I cannot
> exit out of it, I cannot open anything else. I either
> have to restart my computer, or do Control,Alt, Delete.
> When I do Ctrl Alt Del, it brings up something like
> www.hotboxsearch.com or something along those lines, and a
> new program called iexplore. When I click "end task" for
> all of these, every internet explorer window closes and
> then when I re-open internet explorer, the search box
> thing is opened on the screen yet is not from the normal
> search, but is from the people who won't let me close the
> ad. I have run AdAware, and have done virus scans. Does
> anyone know what do you for this? Whenever I run AdAware,
> it gets rid of all the bad files, yet the problem still
> occurs. When I run virus scans, it says I have no
> viruses. What should I do?

Create a directory on your hardrive to save HijackThis.exe. A directory
like c:\hijackthis. If you do not do this, you will not be able to use the
backup/restore features.

Download HijackThis from:

http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/hijackthis.zip

or here:

http://computercops.biz/downloads-cat-14.html

Save this file into the directory you made previously and then run the
program named hijackthis.exe. When the program opens click on the Config
button, then click on the Misc Tools button, and click on the Check for
update online button. When it completes checking/applying updates press the
back button.

Now click on the Scan button and when it is finished click on the Save Log
button. A Notepad window will open with the contents of this log. Click on
Edit then click on Select all. Then click on Edit and then Click on Copy.

Create a reply to this post here or register an account and post a message
in the HijackThis Logs forums at http://www.bleepingcomputer.com and right
click in message area and select paste to paste the log into the post.

Someone will reply to you after reading this post. DO NOT fix any entries
unless you understand what you are doing.

To see a tutorial with screenshots on using HijackThis you can click on the
link below:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/index.php?showtutorial=42 

-- 
Lawrence Abrams
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com
Source for Original Content, Tutorials, and Support for the beginning
computer user.
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