Got Bugged - 11/01/04 04:47 AM
Well, I've now seen one of the most pain in the [censored] virus/malware/spyware [censored] I have ever dealt with.
The first symptoms were that my start page for any of my webbrowsers was changed to some search site, after running spybot the problem seemed like it was cleared up, but later it came back. This thing also caused a lot of random pop ups telling me I have spyware on my system, and wanting me to pay for their spyware remover. Also it's interesting to note that after a half hour I'm getting low virtual memory warnings and my computer is slow and laggy, So much so that programs would close all on there own and refuse to open because of lack of memory. A Virus scan reveilled a ton of infected system files so I know something was buggy there too.
This goes on for a few days, partially due to lack of time to sit down and deal with it, and I download Hijackthis! and start clearing house on my Add/Remove Programs. I find a ton of nasty little buggers and clean those off, but I still had lag and the homepage take overs. I find this program called WebPatrol. Within moments it alerts me to some random .dll file, I run Hijackthis to see if it sees it too, it id's itself as an IE Addon btw, and it does, it also sees it spawned a BHO. Looking at my logs I see that on two other occasions a randomly named dll in C:\Windows\System32 have also been spawned and created BHO's, and these are the guys hijacking my homepage. I think I got this thing cornered but I can't seem to find the main bug spawning these dll's. Anyone experiance anything similar or have any idea where this thing could be hiding?
Here are the programs I've been using
Lavasoft Ad-aware 6
latest version of Spybot
Trendmirco online virus scanner and Antivir XP
WinPatrol
Hijackthis!
Thanks, I so wanna kill this [censored]!
The first symptoms were that my start page for any of my webbrowsers was changed to some search site, after running spybot the problem seemed like it was cleared up, but later it came back. This thing also caused a lot of random pop ups telling me I have spyware on my system, and wanting me to pay for their spyware remover. Also it's interesting to note that after a half hour I'm getting low virtual memory warnings and my computer is slow and laggy, So much so that programs would close all on there own and refuse to open because of lack of memory. A Virus scan reveilled a ton of infected system files so I know something was buggy there too.
This goes on for a few days, partially due to lack of time to sit down and deal with it, and I download Hijackthis! and start clearing house on my Add/Remove Programs. I find a ton of nasty little buggers and clean those off, but I still had lag and the homepage take overs. I find this program called WebPatrol. Within moments it alerts me to some random .dll file, I run Hijackthis to see if it sees it too, it id's itself as an IE Addon btw, and it does, it also sees it spawned a BHO. Looking at my logs I see that on two other occasions a randomly named dll in C:\Windows\System32 have also been spawned and created BHO's, and these are the guys hijacking my homepage. I think I got this thing cornered but I can't seem to find the main bug spawning these dll's. Anyone experiance anything similar or have any idea where this thing could be hiding?
Here are the programs I've been using
Lavasoft Ad-aware 6
latest version of Spybot
Trendmirco online virus scanner and Antivir XP
WinPatrol
Hijackthis!
Thanks, I so wanna kill this [censored]!