On a computer at my friends house they use avast 4 free and the computer did some strange things lately so we did a boot scan. Now Avast has found in total 220 viruses. From these viruses almost 100 are root kits and Trojans. Is there a outbreak that I don’t know about? ???
How is this not detected by the normal Avast in the background and only with a bootscan…?
Hoi EljoPc.nl,
Post omgaand eens even een HJT logfile tekstje bijgevoegd bij je volgende posting.
Er moet een reden zijn voor dit vreemde gedrag, wellicht twee residente av-scanners tegelijk op een machine gezet. In dat geval gaan ze elkaars signatures in de weg zitten. Ook Panda en avast schijnen elkaar in dit opzicht niet te verdragen, daar Panda in dit opzicht niet goed is afgeschermd. Het kan ook wat anders zijn maar een HJT logje analyseren kan geen kwaad, dunkt me,
groetjes,
polonus
Maybe the virus definitions were updated meanwhile…
Difficult to say if we do not have more info (some files names and paths, viruses names)…
Thanks for the quick reply, I will get this HJT soon.
220 malwares found or 220 infected files found?
Is avast up to date?
What OS? (completely updated?
What other security software?
If avast detects it whith a bootscan, it should normally have detected the things also when using the system in a normal way. Are the standard settings in avast changed? Did the person disabled avast (even for a short time)? Did the person just ignored the avast warning(s)?
For more info u can look at his signature below his reply 
Which shows basicly nothing. Although it does show his OS is not up to date.
avast 4.x? Eh there was never a X version 
Hi Eddy, MrAgent and EljoPc.nl,
I have to fully agree with my friend Eddy. This really does not say a thing, he speaks about a friend’s machine. We can speculate what has been going on on that machine to come up with that record number of trojan/worm rootkit finds, but a HJT log will give us a better clue to come at the root of the problem(s)…
Could also have been the results of a fake av solution installation that came with some more of its obscure friends, some rounds of malicious downloaders and you could end up with “quite some unfriendly collection of miscreations” in no time,
pol
It is not his computer but one at a friend’s house. So, the signature means little in this case.
[u] On a computer at my friends house[/u] they use avast 4 free and the computer did some strange things lately so we did a boot scan.
Hi CharleyO,
Good observation, from that I must conclude you are developing the analytical mind it needs to be a good malware fighter. Being attentive and reading what the poster says makes half the job of right interpretation,
let us now wait for the HJT log and analyze a bit further, until now there is little beyond speculation what we can do,
Damian
Thanks, Polonus … hopefully we get the HJT log soon.
Ok it has taken some time due to hollidays but here is the HJT file.
Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2
Scan saved at 12:31:35, on 25-4-2009
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180)
Boot mode: Normal
Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\csrss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\Program Files\PC Tools Firewall Plus\FWService.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\aswUpdSv.exe
C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\ashServ.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jqs.exe
C:\Program Files\LogMeIn\x86\RaMaint.exe
C:\Program Files\LogMeIn\x86\LogMeIn.exe
C:\Program Files\LogMeIn\x86\LMIGuardian.exe
C:\Program Files\Spyware Terminator\sp_rsser.exe
C:\Program Files\Linksys Wireless-G PCI Wireless Network Monitor\WLService.exe
C:\Program Files\Linksys Wireless-G PCI Wireless Network Monitor\WMP54Gv4.exe
C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\ashMaiSv.exe
C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\ashWebSv.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\alg.exe
C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
C:\PROGRA~1\ALWILS~1\Avast4\ashDisp.exe
C:\Program Files\PC Tools Firewall Plus\FirewallGUI.exe
C:\Program Files\Spyware Terminator\SpywareTerminatorShield.exe
C:\Program Files\LogMeIn\x86\LogMeInSystray.exe
C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jusched.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\igfxtray.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\hkcmd.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\igfxpers.exe
C:\WINDOWS\RTHDCPL.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe
C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger\MsnMsgr.Exe
C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
C:\Program Files\LogMeIn\x86\LMIGuardian.exe
C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 2.3\program\soffice.exe
C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 2.3\program\soffice.BIN
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger\usnsvc.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\wuauclt.exe
C:\Program Files\LogMeIn\x86\LogMeIn.exe
C:\Program Files\LogMeIn\x86\LMIGuardian.exe
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\HijackThis\HijackThis.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\wmiprvse.exe
R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=69157
R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar,LinksFolderName = Koppelingen
O1 - Hosts: 82.98.235.133 browser-security.microsoft.com
O1 - Hosts: 82.98.235.133 url.adtrgt.com
O1 - Hosts: 82.98.235.133 best-click-scanner.info
O1 - Hosts: 82.98.235.133 antivirus-xp-pro-2009.com
O1 - Hosts: 82.98.235.133 microsoft.infosecuritycenter.com
O1 - Hosts: 82.98.235.133 microsoft.softwaresecurityhelp.com
O1 - Hosts: 82.98.235.133 onlinenotifyq.net
O1 - Hosts: 82.98.235.133 antivirusxp-pro-2009.com
O1 - Hosts: 82.98.235.133 microsoft.browser-security-center.com
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {1CB20BF0-BBAE-40A7-93F4-6435FF3D0411} - C:\PROGRA~1\Crawler\Toolbar\ctbr.dll
O2 - BHO: Java™ Plug-In SSV Helper - {761497BB-D6F0-462C-B6EB-D4DAF1D92D43} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\ssv.dll
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {7E853D72-626A-48EC-A868-BA8D5E23E045} - (no file)
O2 - BHO: Windows Live Aanmelden - Help - {9030D464-4C02-4ABF-8ECC-5164760863C6} - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live\WindowsLiveLogin.dll
O2 - BHO: Google Toolbar Notifier BHO - {AF69DE43-7D58-4638-B6FA-CE66B5AD205D} - C:\Program Files\Google\GoogleToolbarNotifier\5.1.1309.3572\swg.dll
O2 - BHO: Windows Live Toolbar Helper - {BDBD1DAD-C946-4A17-ADC1-64B5B4FF55D0} - C:\Program Files\Windows Live Toolbar\msntb.dll
O2 - BHO: Java™ Plug-In 2 SSV Helper - {DBC80044-A445-435b-BC74-9C25C1C588A9} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jp2ssv.dll
O2 - BHO: JQSIEStartDetectorImpl - {E7E6F031-17CE-4C07-BC86-EABFE594F69C} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\lib\deploy\jqs\ie\jqs_plugin.dll
O3 - Toolbar: &Crawler Toolbar - {4B3803EA-5230-4DC3-A7FC-33638F3D3542} - C:\PROGRA~1\Crawler\Toolbar\ctbr.dll
O3 - Toolbar: Windows Live Toolbar - {BDAD1DAD-C946-4A17-ADC1-64B5B4FF55D0} - C:\Program Files\Windows Live Toolbar\msntb.dll
O4 - HKLM..\Run: [avast!] C:\PROGRA~1\ALWILS~1\Avast4\ashDisp.exe
O4 - HKLM..\Run: [00PCTFW] “C:\Program Files\PC Tools Firewall Plus\FirewallGUI.exe” -s
O4 - HKLM..\Run: [SpywareTerminator] “C:\Program Files\Spyware Terminator\SpywareTerminatorShield.exe”
O4 - HKLM..\Run: [High Definition Audio Property Page Shortcut] HDAShCut.exe
O4 - HKLM..\Run: [LogMeIn GUI] “C:\Program Files\LogMeIn\x86\LogMeInSystray.exe”
O4 - HKLM..\Run: [SunJavaUpdateSched] “C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jusched.exe”
O4 - HKLM..\Run: [IgfxTray] C:\WINDOWS\system32\igfxtray.exe
O4 - HKLM..\Run: [HotKeysCmds] C:\WINDOWS\system32\hkcmd.exe
O4 - HKLM..\Run: [Persistence] C:\WINDOWS\system32\igfxpers.exe
O4 - HKLM..\Run: [RTHDCPL] RTHDCPL.EXE
O4 - HKLM..\Run: [Alcmtr] ALCMTR.EXE
O4 - HKCU..\Run: [CTFMON.EXE] C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe
O4 - HKCU..\Run: [MsnMsgr] “C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger\MsnMsgr.Exe” /background
O4 - HKCU..\Run: [MSMSGS] “C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe” /background
O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-19..\Run: [CTFMON.EXE] C:\WINDOWS\system32\CTFMON.EXE (User ‘Lokale service’)
O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-20..\Run: [CTFMON.EXE] C:\WINDOWS\system32\CTFMON.EXE (User ‘Netwerkservice’)
O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-18..\Run: [CTFMON.EXE] C:\WINDOWS\system32\CTFMON.EXE (User ‘SYSTEM’)
O4 - HKUS.DEFAULT..\Run: [CTFMON.EXE] C:\WINDOWS\system32\CTFMON.EXE (User ‘Default user’)
O4 - Startup: OpenOffice.org 2.3 .lnk = C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 2.3\program\quickstart.exe
O8 - Extra context menu item: &Windows Live Search - res://C:\Program Files\Windows Live Toolbar\msntb.dll/search.htm
O8 - Extra context menu item: Add to Windows &Live Favorites - http://favorites.live.com/quickadd.aspx
O8 - Extra context menu item: Crawler Search - tbr:iemenu
O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {e2e2dd38-d088-4134-82b7-f2ba38496583} - C:\WINDOWS\Network Diagnostic\xpnetdiag.exe
O9 - Extra ‘Tools’ menuitem: @xpsp3res.dll,-20001 - {e2e2dd38-d088-4134-82b7-f2ba38496583} - C:\WINDOWS\Network Diagnostic\xpnetdiag.exe
O9 - Extra button: Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
O9 - Extra ‘Tools’ menuitem: Windows Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
O16 - DPF: {E8F628B5-259A-4734-97EE-BA914D7BE941} (Driver Agent ActiveX Control) - http://driveragent.com/files/driveragent.cab
O18 - Protocol: tbr - {4D25FB7A-8902-4291-960E-9ADA051CFBBF} - C:\PROGRA~1\Crawler\Toolbar\ctbr.dll
O23 - Service: avast! iAVS4 Control Service (aswUpdSv) - ALWIL Software - C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\aswUpdSv.exe
O23 - Service: avast! Antivirus - ALWIL Software - C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\ashServ.exe
O23 - Service: avast! Mail Scanner - ALWIL Software - C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\ashMaiSv.exe
O23 - Service: avast! Web Scanner - ALWIL Software - C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\ashWebSv.exe
O23 - Service: Google Software Updater (gusvc) - Google - C:\Program Files\Google\Common\Google Updater\GoogleUpdaterService.exe
O23 - Service: Java Quick Starter (JavaQuickStarterService) - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jqs.exe
O23 - Service: LogMeIn Maintenance Service (LMIMaint) - LogMeIn, Inc. - C:\Program Files\LogMeIn\x86\RaMaint.exe
O23 - Service: LogMeIn - LogMeIn, Inc. - C:\Program Files\LogMeIn\x86\LogMeIn.exe
O23 - Service: PC Tools Firewall Plus (PCToolsFirewallPlus) - PC Tools - C:\Program Files\PC Tools Firewall Plus\FWService.exe
O23 - Service: Spyware Terminator Realtime Shield Service (sp_rssrv) - Crawler.com - C:\Program Files\Spyware Terminator\sp_rsser.exe
O23 - Service: WMP54Gv4SVC - GEMTEKS - C:\Program Files\Linksys Wireless-G PCI Wireless Network Monitor\WLService.exe
–
End of file - 8112 bytes
I’d say you should fix the entries you see in the added picture…
Additionally you should run MBAM, SAS and/or ST
(or you think about a reinstallation of the OS…)
yours
onlysomeone
Ok that we’ll do, thanks
Run SAS in MS safe mode cause this will pickup a lot more in the normal MS way, and this has happen to me twice about 3 months ago.
In addition to what onlysomeone posted above, consider fixing the following :
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
A newer version of service pack is available. Service packs increase the safety of your system. Visit Microsoft’s windowsupdate site to download the newest version of the service pack.
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {7E853D72-626A-48EC-A868-BA8D5E23E045} - (no file)
Unnecessary (deactivated) entry that can be fixed.
http://www.spyandseek.com/Search.php?search_for=7E853D72-626A-48EC-A868-BA8D5E23E045&search=SAS-Search (first 5 entries on the list are relevant)
Done that, thanks.