Some cleaning up to do..(RESOLVED)

I'm home for the holidays and my younger siblings have dirtied up the family PC. Here is my current HJT log:

I know there are some nasty things in there. Any files or folders with "hijack this" in the name are closed automatically.

Welcome to DAL,

You have the Chod.d worm and can be very tricky to get rid of with out causeing errors about missing files.

Hopefully it will go well for you, so here is the fix below and good luck.


Please download MsnVirRem.zip
and save it to your desktop. Once in place, right click the zip file, and extract the files to your desktop. DO NOT RUN ANYTHING YET


Restart your computer and boot into Safe Mode by hitting the F8 key repeatedly until a menu shows up (and choose Safe Mode from the list). In some systems, this may be the F5 key, so try that if F8 doesn't work.


In the new MsnVirRem folder, that you should have on your desktop, double click MsnVir.bat and let it run its course. A DOS window should pop up, Let it run until it disappears. It will take time.
After it disappears, reboot back into normal mode, and post a fresh HijackThis Log.

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Thank you.

Here is a fresh copy:

Excellent, looks like it went very well indeed.

Since the young ones were surfing without adult supervision

We ought to do an online scan at Panda and see if it turns up any thing.

http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan.htm

Please post the log it will make if something was found. Thanks.

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Awesome. Thanks again.

Here is the log from panda:

Excellent, looks like you are good to go.

Go here to clear out your java cache:

http://www.java.com/en/download/help/5000020300.xml


If everything is OK I will have some good free programs for you to try out to keep the computer a whole lot safer while the young ones are having fun.

Let me know if all is well.

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Thank you kindly.

I'm actually very surprised that this was all that was found. I had found some "surf sidekick" spyware which from what I understand is a very bad one.. But when I went into regedit to get rid of it, regedit would close on me due to this chod.d worm.

Apparently, my younger brother got it from MSN.. just kind of weird how a little bugger like that can completely disable regedit/avast/hijackthis/etc.

Anyways, I'm all ears on software suggestions. I currently have search and destroy, avast, and adaware installed on this machine. But I would love to hear about others.

Thanks again, and happy new years.

Ok then, just disregard any you might already have.



If you are no longer having any more trouble here is some preventative measures for you.

Here are some preventive measures you can take to keep your computer from getting infected again. also keep all these and Ad-awareSE and SpybotS&D updated.

http://forums.thatcomputerguy.us/ind...showtopic=1190

Flush your restore points in ME and XP, by turning System Restore off and then back on.
This will create a fresh restore point.

Explained here:
Windows XP: service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgen...src=sec_doc_nam

Microsoft ME:

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...rc=sec_doc_nam


RegProtect

This small registry protection tool will save you hours of heartache by notifying you when some program good or bad is trying to access your registry.

You have the option of allowing(good) items or blocking(bad)items.

http://www.diamondcs.com.au/index.php?page=regprot


To reduce the re-infection potential for malware and protect yourself against spyware, here are a few helpful suggestions:

1. Keep Windows and Internet Explorer current with the latest critical security updates from Microsoft. This will patch many of the security holes through which attackers can gain access to your computer. You CANNOT complete this update using an alternate browser.
http://v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.co....aspx?ln=en-us

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.asp


2. Run your antivirus software regularly, and to keep its definitions up-to-date. If you are thinking about switching, there are a some good free Antivirus programs that are decent, including AVG and Avast!.
AVG: http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1

Avast: http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html


3. In addtion to using Ad-aware consider using another free malware scanning/removal program:
MS Antispyware beta: http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...e/default.mspx


4. Consider using a free firewall if you are not already using one. Some good free ones are:
Kerio
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/Kerio.cfm

OutPost Personal Firewall:
Outpost



5. Consider using an alternate free browser for general web surfing but you must use IE for windows update.
Mozilla Firefox: www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/


6. Consider increasing your browser security by using these programs:
SpywareGuard will protect your homepage from being hijacked: http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html
SpywareBlaster will increase browser protection by blocking Thousands of known malware sites by adding them to IE's restricted sites zone. Download it here:

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html


If you use SpywareBlaster, you can also use a customblocklist to add even more entries into IE restricted sites zone. Go to this site for the current list and how to use instructions: http://customblockinglist.cjb.net/


IE-SPYAD is similar in that it adds thousands more known malware sites to IE's restricted zone. Download it here:
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/ehowes/www/resource.htm


*Remember just like your primary anti-virus software, it is important to keep all of these programs up-to-date and use them on a regular basis. It's Free

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