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Name: mongo31
Date: September 22, 2008 at 09:27:12 Pacific
OS: Win XP
CPU/Ram: AMD 2800/1.0 GB
Product: Own Make
Comment:

First Post. Wish I would have found this site prior to my adventues of the Vundo-Trojan episode/fix.

Well, here is my dilema.

I got a pop up saying that I had a vundo trojan. I belive that it was legit, McAfee virus protection (on acess scan). I double checked it with a full system scan and there were 19 infections, 5 of which would not delete. They were imbedded .dll files that I figure were running somewhere. Well I searched on the net and went to CNet and downloades MalWare, ran it, and it asked me to reboot to clean the files. I clicked yes, and as I clicked 'yes' a note pad poped up with hyroglyphics, some unreconizable characters, and promply went away.

The system rebooted, but some notice came up, that I've never seen before saying that there was a system failure, 'Please selecet what you'd like to do'. I can't select anything and after 25 seconds, the system attemps to reeboot again. This goes on continually until I shut off the the system. It's a continual loop as far as I can tell. Maybe something else?

What can I do?

Boot up using the boot disk for the WD harddrive?

This is the first problem that I've had since I put the computer together over 7 years ago.

Thanks for the help.

Rob

I'm here to figure things out.



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Name: mongo31
Date: September 22, 2008 at 17:05:29 Pacific
Reply:

I was able to get back into my PC via the safe mode. Not sure what the deal is.

But I'm going to follow others and install some of the malware programs prescribed on other threads and post the results for verification/help.

Thanks

I'm here to figure things out.


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Response Number 2
Name: l8ians
Date: September 23, 2008 at 19:37:26 Pacific
Reply:

Hi Mongo,

Are you able to login to the computer?
If you are able to means install Smitfraudfix on the computer and restart the computer and press f8 and go to safe mode and run the scan. Run the Hijack also it will be removed completely.Or else try installing malwarebytes or superAnti-Spyware in the computer and run the complete scan it will remove the files which are not deleted even after the scan by the other tools.
Let me know the result.

Thanks and Regards
l8ians


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