Virus-Need help

Darn Malware

Published on January 14, 2009 By WeatherBound In Personal Computing

I have vista and was running One-Care Anti virus and firewall. Some how a virus came into my system.

I have uninstalled One-Care and installed Avast Antivirus software that has a boot scan. I did the boot scan and it found 5 viruses on my system. Avast took care of those. I installed Comodo firewall just because i think it better to have a firewall installed.

I then Installed MalwareByts Anti malware soft-wear and it found one attack. And deleted it.

So far all sounds good but

I am still receiving messages in my Email saying that my email i sent did not go thrue and gives me the email addresses where it was supposed to go. I do not Email very much and all these addresses where not sent by me.

I will also add that i did try Ad-Aware, Spy-blaster and Avg and others and all say everything is Good.

I am still getting theses could not be delivered emails that i did not send. when i look at the date the error message says the recent date of today.....

Has any one run in to this? If so how long does it take for those could not be delivered emails to get out of the Email system?

I will tell you it has been since Friday since all scans have been showing up with no viruses.

If you have had this virus. Let me know what you did to get rid of it.

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

Comments (Page 4)

PuterDudeJim

on Jan 18, 2009

Don, send me you phone number via email. I can probably help with this. I do it all the time here for friends and siblings.

Anthony R

on Jan 18, 2009

Post hijackthis log to http://www.hijackthis.de/ hit enter, and see what it finds.

PuterDudeJim

on Jan 18, 2009

Post hijackthis log to http://www.hijackthis.de/ hit enter, and see what it finds.

Not necessary...he had two items needing removal, the rest were normal Vista stuff.

WeatherBound

on Jan 19, 2009

Well, They have stopped.
That is funny in it self. Dose it not take days for returned emails to go through the mail system. But so for nothing has came through. :.)

DrJBHL

on Jan 19, 2009

WeatherBound

reply 24

Well, They have stopped.
That is funny in it self. Dose it not take days for returned emails to go through the mail system. But so for nothing has came through. :.)

A friend in Israel had a similar problem, but it was the ISP that was infected. I wonder if that was your problem.

PuterDudeJim

on Jan 19, 2009

A friend in Israel had a similar problem, but it was the ISP that was infected. I wonder if that was your problem.

Well he definitely did have some malware found by HiJack this, and removeit pro.

WeatherBound

on Jan 20, 2009

They are Back. crash is in the future.

DrJBHL

on Jan 20, 2009

Wellll....thinking about "format C"?

"A friend in Israel had a similar problem, but it was the ISP that was infected. I wonder if that was your problem.

Well he definitely did have some malware found by HiJack this, and removeit pro."

Naaah....it was just one of your skins, Jim....

Seriously though, I think you've gotten to the point of formatting your drive, mate....hope you have a clean backup.

WeatherBound

on Jan 20, 2009

i am talking about full crash. start all over. and may be just through it out the window. lol

DrJBHL

on Jan 20, 2009

WeatherBound

reply 4

i am talking about full crash. start all over. and may be just through it out the window. lol

WeatherBound

on Jan 20, 2009

I forgot to add. this is really funny.

I cleaned the startup menu. not sure why but after running Hijack this and RemoveIt. all emails stop. The funny thing is next thing i know is restore and backup is on my clean startup menu. I did not even run it. then emails come back.

Then Jim tells me to delete the two things from hijack this all things go good again. no emails.

Since i was suspicious of restore and back up thing. I cleared the start menu again. next thing you know backup and restore is on it again and emails are back.

Any ideas how it gets back on there.

I have never use that so it should not be on the start menu

BigDogBigFeet

on Jan 20, 2009

Sounds like the virus is using backup and restore to activate the email worm again. Programs appear on the left side of the start menu based on frequency of use.

PuterDudeJim

on Jan 20, 2009

Turn off system restore on all drives, reboot, delete backups, reboot, run the progs that let you get rid of the worm to begin with. Once all this is done, turn system restore back on. If this don't work, I could probably fix it if I had it. But you are about to the point where a format is called for. It may be a polymorphic virus, which stays ahead of the virus programs by changing into some other form every so often. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/polymorphic_virus.html

WeatherBound

on Jan 20, 2009

Jim did all above. Scans have come up empty handed. If you dont mind i can send you a hiJack this doc to see if you can find some more or new ones.

this is crazy. to think I had Anti-virus and firewall with spyblaster install to make me feel safe.

PuterDudeJim

on Jan 20, 2009

Send away, I wish I was there. Fixing this kind of thing is a lot easier hands on. I have found precious little I can't fix. If I can get my hands on it. That's why a PC tech hates phone calls. My Dad in law sent me to school for this stuff. I wish I could be there to fix this.

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