continual battle with bots and malware every few months
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Good call Nigel.
sdowney717 because you have posted at Bleeping Computer as suggested by Nigel, I would suggest follow their instruction only. Do what they recommend only. Don't go wondering off doing things on your own.
Bleeping Computer is very good at these kinds of problems.
Jack
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Can I leave them both on there, AVG free and Avira?
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Good call Nigel.
sdowney717 because you have posted at Bleeping Computer as suggested by Nigel, I would suggest follow their instruction only. Do what they recommend only. Don't go wondering off doing things on your own.
Bleeping Computer is very good at these kinds of problems.
Jack
No one there responded yet.
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Scuttlebutt says: It's best to have only Avira or Avast, in short only one AV installed. In times past I have had up to three installed, one was dormant, one was on-demand scan only, one was doing the real time protection shielding. However, such did come at a price, I had to be, in that area, as geeky as Callender in sevenforums and dalchina in eightforums, since then, I have only one AV & AM -- Emsisoft AV/AM program.
Last edited by RolandJS; 11 Jan 2017 at 20:23.
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Because Bleeping Computer is very good at what they do, they are very busy.
Just hang in there and they will get to you.
Jack
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No one there responded yet.
Make sure your bleepingcomputer thread mentions you were referred to that place by a sevenforums tech -- else they may not answer because they think you have "double-posted".
Last edited by RolandJS; 11 Jan 2017 at 15:43.
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Had a look at BC forum earlier regarding this trojan, you appear to have a later dated more Vicious version of it.
Qbox is combofox's quarentine section, its the 3 dated 2017 that have been causing the issues.
as Barman said shoot over to BC, there is/was a problem with your registry.
Roy
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Can I leave them both on there, AVG free and Avira?
If you've got them both installed and running - I don't know how. I assumed that when you said Avast is your AV that there must have been Avira leftovers. Didn't realize you wanted both installed.
RE: Avira. When I've used it in the past it scans for other security products and Avira would not install until they were removed. So I no longer use it.
I'd say it's definitely not a good idea to use two realtime protection AV's at the same time.
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bleeping PC is no help so far, they must be too busy.
In the Qoobox folder these entries
2016-11-24 12:15:37 . 2017-01-11 14:38:39 232 ----a-w- C:\Qoobox\Quarantine\Registry_backups\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers-{472083B0-C522-11CF-8763-00608CC02F24}.reg.dat
2015-02-26 03:32:58 . 2015-02-26 03:32:58 0 ----a-w- C:\Qoobox\Quarantine\MBR_HardDisk0.mbr
2015-02-26 03:31:52 . 2015-02-26 03:31:52 377 ----a-w- C:\Qoobox\Quarantine\Registry_backups\HKLM_Wow6432Node-ActiveSetup-{2D46B6DC-2207-486B-B523-A557E6D54B47}.reg.dat
2015-02-26 03:27:24 . 2017-01-11 14:01:02 3,821 ----a-w-
C:\Qoobox\Quarantine\Registry_backups\tcpip.reg
2015-02-26 03:20:46 . 2017-01-11 12:40:39 204 ----a-w-
C:\Qoobox\Quarantine\catchme.log
2010-11-21 03:23:55 . 2010-11-21 03:23:55 26,624 ----a-w-
C:\Qoobox\Quarantine\C\Windows\SysWOW64\userinit.exe.vir
are they viruses?
Do they regenerate themselves?
I noticed the symptoms came back 2 days after running combofix.
My guess if I run combofix every few days, it would keep finding these because some hidden file on the PC is reinfestating the PC again and again.
The odd thing is if I leave system page up which shows various things about PC, the PC works a little better.
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