HELP!Virus redirects to spam sites and other stuff

seth500 said:

Don't wipe the drive do this instead, boot your computer hit the F8 key while booting until you get to the Safe Mode Screen and all that-there should be some sort of option for reinstall of the op system from there. If you wipe the drive with the clean all or clean commands you lose all partition information so don't do that. Every computer is different in the recovery method, I would also suggest looking at the manual that they sent with the machine on how to exactly do it with you model..

thanks for the advice i will look into that..

So i uninstalled MSE and installed Avira in the mean time.
-- What did the Avira scan tell you? Avira has a rescue system. You can check it out here. and here2

Equally you can also try:

Dr. Web LiveCD / Dr. Web Live USB

THIS Supervirus might be worth reading also.

Anyway better check out seth's advice first on th F8. A recovery option mght surface there.

Is that a Dell? You can check here Windows 7 PC Restore_Dell

Acer? In Acer laptops you can press ALT+F10 before the Windows boot screen appears and you'll be taken to it's recovery module. Check here1
and here2

If neither are your brand, you can check here Laptop Recovery Instructions

Goodluck :)

avira found one threat and removed it.. However i just used Kaspersky's ttds killer and it found a threat in a windows/system32/ sptd.sys and it removed it.. maybe that was the virus because when i searched remove sptd.sys in google almost every site i clicked on was redirected.. like if it new i found the virus or something.
i have an hp laptop btw.

k thanks will try and report here

I think i fixed it!!!! the file i had removed earlier with kaspersky tdds killer:

However i just used Kaspersky's ttds killer and it found a threat in a windows/system32/ sptd.sys and it removed it.. maybe that was the virus because when i searched remove sptd.sys in google almost every site i clicked on was redirected.. like if it new i found the virus or something.

was the culprit i think because know that i search sptd.sys on google no more redirects! but idk its permanently because sometimes this happens and the redirects reappear. will update with more testing

Had an HP laptop before..did not like it and swiched to Lenovo.

Might want to run a second opinion again after all you have ran Kaspersky TDSS Killer. Try Hitman Pro 3.5.9.129 cloud based-scanner very light (there's an option to install or not). Activate it "if" it finds still so you will have a 30day removal license. The ESET Online scan is good. That's one of the online scans I use next to Kaspersky.

We have RKill here in the forums and a lot have been quite successfull using it. Corrine can help you with that. Also you can check it out here RKill

On me I'll either check using:

1. HitmanPro
2. Dr.Web Live USB/CD
3. RKill or GMER

But that's just me :) But do check it again (might still have traces of some sort) and observe your system's performance. Something might got borked from the removal or while the infection was still active.

Goodluck :)

k ill check it using hitman pro and rkill ill update with results