I'm freaking out

fseal · 10 Aug 2011

At this point I'd be preparing for a "Nuke it from space" approach... :/

Though merely repartitioning and formatting your HD may not be enough as virii can hide in the MBR and even in your BIOS on some motherboards. I'd be prepared to re-flash my BIOS and hand clean the HD including the MBR (have to look up how to do that).

Also, do you have a firewalled router or firewall machine/appliance between you and the net? If not is your windows firewall on? If no to both then you could be just being reinfected every time you connect to the net...

Lastly, having two AV programs installed at once usually doesn't work well. They can end up conflicting with each other, either to the point of not being as effective as one by itself or by slowing your computer down so much it's like having a virus itself.

brady · 10 Aug 2011

I must agree with seal, with all the work you've put into cleaning the machine with very random results it might be time to nuke it.

MaxPayne · 10 Aug 2011

fseal said:

At this point I'd be preparing for a "Nuke it from space" approach... :/

Though merely repartitioning and formatting your HD may not be enough as virii can hide in the MBR and even in your BIOS on some motherboards. I'd be prepared to re-flash my BIOS and hand clean the HD including the MBR (have to look up how to do that).

Also, do you have a firewalled router or firewall machine/appliance between you and the net? If not is your windows firewall on? If no to both then you could be just being reinfected every time you connect to the net...

Lastly, having two AV programs installed at once usually doesn't work well. They can end up conflicting with each other, either to the point of not being as effective as one by itself or by slowing your computer down so much it's like having a virus itself.

I don't think I have a firewall setup besides nortons's should I seup another one besides windosws because I don't like windows anythingwhen it comes to security, I really don't want to nuke my hard drive as I have ubuntu on a seperate partition and I have important files in windows and don't have anything to backup with.

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DBone · 10 Aug 2011

Before you panic, try HitMan Pro http://www.surfright.nl/en/downloads/ .

MaxPayne · 10 Aug 2011

Thanks, oh and i checked and windows firewall is on...
Also, i am pretty sure there is still a virus because i google searched again and yea the god damn spam sites again.

MaxPayne · 10 Aug 2011

now my norton subscription ended and i am with out protection, however i found this at the comodo forums and i think i am gonna do it:GeekBuddy Proactive PC Protection Tech Support Computer Diagnostics
what do you guys think? Oh and hitman pro only found one tracking cookiee and thats it

GEWB · 10 Aug 2011

MaxPayne said:

I don't think I have a firewall setup besides nortons's should I seup another one besides windosws because I don't like windows anythingwhen it comes to security, I really don't want to nuke my hard drive as I have ubuntu on a seperate partition and I have important files in windows and don't have anything to backup with.

Time to invest a little time and/or money and back up those important files and ONLY those files (not the entire Windows partition).

Suggestions:
> Purchase external hard drive
> Purchase flash drives
> Burn to DVD/CD
> Sign up for Windows Live Skydrive and upload to there (note single file size limitation) - up to 25GB but read how to do it!
> Save/back up your Ubuntu /home partition as well

Run a utility to find serial numbers and write them down on paper.

Download and burn live Linux ISO such as Puppy Linux 5.2.5 or Knoppix.

Download and run the hard drive utility from your HD manufacturer - blow out the MBR and partition table.

Use live Linux to partition your drive into two making sure the second partition is large enough for all of your Windows stuff.

Reload Ubuntu and replace the /home partition with your backup.

Reload Windows 7 - it will see Ubuntu and set up a boot loader.

Load a Windows anti-virus program and firewall; update Windows.

Reload the backed up files to the Windows installation and virus check them.

(Yes I know there are other ways to do this but this should work just fine.)

Regards,
GEWB

MaxPayne · 10 Aug 2011

GEWB said:

MaxPayne said:

I don't think I have a firewall setup besides nortons's should I seup another one besides windosws because I don't like windows anythingwhen it comes to security, I really don't want to nuke my hard drive as I have ubuntu on a seperate partition and I have important files in windows and don't have anything to backup with.

Time to invest a little time and/or money and back up those important files and ONLY those files (not the entire Windows partition).

Suggestions:
> Purchase external hard drive
> Purchase flash drives
> Burn to DVD/CD
> Sign up for Windows Live Skydrive and upload to there (note single file size limitation) - up to 25GB but read how to do it!
> Save/back up your Ubuntu /home partition as well

Run a utility to find serial numbers and write them down on paper.

Download and burn live Linux ISO such as Puppy Linux 5.2.5 or Knoppix.

Download and run the hard drive utility from your HD manufacturer - blow out the MBR and partition table.

Use live Linux to partition your drive into two making sure the second partition is large enough for all of your Windows stuff.

Reload Ubuntu and replace the /home partition with your backup.

Reload Windows 7 - it will see Ubuntu and set up a boot loader.

Load a Windows anti-virus program and firewall; update Windows.

Reload the backed up files to the Windows installation and virus check them.

(Yes I know there are other ways to do this but this should work just fine.)

Regards,
GEWB

Thanks for your help, but I will do this if there is no other choice.

GEWB · 10 Aug 2011

Statement from OpenCandy:

Learn More About OpenCandy and False Adware Detections | OpenCandy

Looks like you need to uninstall ALL of the various programs/utilities you downloaded and installed (unless you know exactly which program caused this). Be sure to do one at a time and clean the registry after each (also search for and remove left over files/directories). There are many posts in the forums with instructions.

Also read this thread and see if it helps:

Google search hijack virus. Help m

Regards,
GEWB

MaxPayne · 10 Aug 2011

thank you so much microsoft safety scanner found this but couldnt remove it.. so i think this is the cause..