Right.....

[lebowski]

Stating the obvious there of course.

[Batch]

XP? Yiou could try a system restore to an earlier (working) date I guess.

How do you do this?

start->run    
type in msconfig
Hit "OK"

"System Configuration" app will appear, select "Launch System Restore"

"System Restore" app will appear, select "restore my computer to an earlier date", pick the last restore point before the date everything went wrong.

May not work, but worth a try if you haven't fixed it already.

[sonic youth]

problem in chair not in computer.

Working in IT Support has changed you sonic  

i seem to be doing less support everyday that passes. i pretty much sit there and run the place now.

[Samdy Gray]

If you're the boss, can you get me a job?  

[Power to people]

If you still have hijackthis open tick the follwing entries to fix:

R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Local Page = \blank.htm

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [1018c977] rundll32.exe "C:\WINDOWS\system32\vjsguqah.dll",b

O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {2D663D1A-8670-49D9-A1A5-4C56B4E14E84} - (no file)

If not open run it again and then check the boxes to fix those entries.

I'll give this a go tonight, I gave up last night as it was such a struggle to get to anywhere on the web it would let me look at 1 or 2 sites and then just sit there searching...and in between the adware was popping up....I was just getting more and more wound up as I looked through stuff trying to find any problems....

[Power to people]

If you still have hijackthis open tick the follwing entries to fix:

R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Local Page = \blank.htm

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [1018c977] rundll32.exe "C:\WINDOWS\system32\vjsguqah.dll",b

O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {2D663D1A-8670-49D9-A1A5-4C56B4E14E84} - (no file)

If not open run it again and then check the boxes to fix those entries.

Done that, still got adware popping up, symantec found a virus which it cleared and keeps blocking another so I'm runnig norton at the mo to see if it exists.

The one highlighted above did not exist when I run this again but I also got rid of all nero startups

IE is also still playing up when you try and go from say one page of TEF to another

System was complaining about c:\windows\sys32\vqfjgak0.dll could not be run so I removed that as well

Also something is disabling windows update on boot up

Any more ideas ?

[Power to people]

this is ridiculous - I've now run adaware 2008 freebie and it found 23, and cleared them but I'm still getting ad sites coming up......I will run ad ware again and see if it picks anything else up then run spybot see if that get's anything else

Oh and I've un-installed Nero 8 as I think that is possibly when it started after installing that....maybe

[Samdy Gray]

Simple answer - If you don't want pop-ups then don't use IE.

And did you run the scans with the PC in safe mode this time?

[Simon Pieman]

Run the scans in safe mode. If that doesn't work then disable system restore and then run the scans.

Do this my by right clicking on my computer, select properties and then the system restore tab. You can then disable it here.

Where did you download nero 8 from?

[Power to people]

Run the scans in safe mode. If that doesn't work then disable system restore and then run the scans.

Do this my by right clicking on my computer, select properties and then the system restore tab. You can then disable it here.

Where did you download nero 8 from?

Done all that already, looks like I have now cleared all adware, just run ad aware about 3 times and each time it found some last scan found none.

IE is now running really badly, goes onto some sites but others just sit there trying and trying, I will try re-installing IE.

Something has stopped the service for automatic updates and it will not let you re-start the service just errors everytime about cannot run script

Downloaded Nero 8 from a Torrent site.

[Batch]

You have nothing to lose by running hitman pro (mentioned earlier by Dazzza). It will repeat some of what you have done, but it may well run a program that you haven't that'll detect it. It should be fully automatic once you  press 'go'.

http://www.hitmanpro.nl/hitmanpro/content/view/3/9/lang,en/

[Simon Pieman]

If you're going to download torrents you should always try and read the comments to check if people have warned it's a virus and the such. Always do a scan on the file as well.

Try to turn on automatic updates in msconfig

start>run>msconfig>services

Failing that

start>run>services.msc

right click on auto updates and make sure it's set to startup automatically in the properties

[Power to people]

If you're going to download torrents you should always try and read the comments to check if people have warned it's a virus and the such. Always do a scan on the file as well.

Try to turn on automatic updates in msconfig

start>run>msconfig>services

Failing that

start>run>services.msc

right click on auto updates and make sure it's set to startup automatically in the properties

That is how I was doing it but with no joy, I think all adware etc has now gone but I'm assuming it has left nasty emlements behind.

I did read the torrent info and there were no comments....it has taught me a lesson though to be extremely careful and to scan files before trying to install.

I think my weekend may be taken up rebuilding the computer at the moment.....

[Power to people]

I've finally admitted defeat every time I scan it and it is clean go to IE and off we go again scan and it found at least 5/6 instances of adware, then something it stopping the windows update service, everytime I start it it stops itself again for no rhyme or reason, then IE is so fuckin slow as well.

Just going to be a damn site easier I reckon to re-build, the only annoying thing is I'll lose all my emails as I don't think there is any program that can backup your inbox (unless anyone knows of anything ?)

That's my weekend sorted...and the Mrs moaning I spend more time on the computer than with her  

[Simon Pieman]

Don't you work in IT?