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Trojan Alureon.A Detected After Clean Win7 Install
A brief intro: I'm working on a family friend's laptop. It's a Dell Vostro 3550. After doing a factory reset, I was still getting tons of BSODs. You can find info on all that in this thread. I did a Clean Windows 7 install because all signs pointed to hardware issues, but we wanted to be sure.
The only things I put on the laptop were a WiFi driver, Windows Updates, and MSE. MSE immediately detected Trojan Alureon.A. I had it do what it could, then it suggested using Window Defender to finish up removal. Before I did that, I did some googling. I installed MalwareBytes Anti-Malware, which detected nothing. I then got Kapersky's TDSSKiller.exe, which detected the rootkit and seems to have successfully removed it. I rescanned with all tools after reboot. MSE showed that it had detected, but successfully quarantined tons of variants containing "Trojan Alureon" in their name, but different letters at the end. I had it remove them, which it did. I've rebooted several times, run scans with all programs multiple times, and all seems clear. I wanted to make sure I was out of the woods before I continued gradually installing drivers and programs. Someone in my thread told me to come and post here.