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The USB Boot worked great, except the version that I used and the version in your screen shots didn’t match up at all. One BIG thing that threw me off was that it brought me into Linux platform and I have barely any experience with Linux, so I did the best I could. I scanned the laptop’s harddrive, which took a little over 4 hours. It found 13 infections, 195 malicious files, … I don’t remember it all. I wasn’t sure if you wanted me to remove them or not, so I decided to just remove them. I think I got the complete results, but it’s still on the laptop. Whenever I use my USB Flash Drive in the laptop, it says that the drive is Read Only. I tried deleting files from it, adding files, adding directories, changing the volume name, formatting…nothing worked. I could only copy from the USB drive to the harddrive…and then of course I was able to use it as a boot drive too. When I put the USB Drive back to my Desktop PC, it works just fine. All the permissions are set to Everyone (owner and file/folder permissions), so I don’t understand whats wrong. Maybe maleware? Either way, I wrote down the names of the virus/maleware found/removed…so far:
Adware.BGuard.38
Adware.Conduit.15
Adware.MyWebSearch.43
Adware.MyWebSearch.47
Tool.InstallToolbar.5
Trojan.DownLoader7.18616
Trojan.DownLoader8.58173
Win32.HLLM.Graz
Win32.HLLM.Reset.427
Trojan.MulDrop4.22900
After the removals, I booted the laptop up in Windows normal mode. I started checking out the Autoruns and Running Processes. There is about 15+ different files saying that they are McAfee Anti Virus File…one for this, one for that, blah blah blah. Doesn’t seem right to me. I’ll be back home soon and post the logs from the laptop (somehow). I don’t feel like it’s safe to put the laptop on my network yet though. Thoughts?