Avast popups started occuring Thursday evening August 9, 2012 while on the website hxxp://p2p4u.net that are persistent and have escaped my efforts to remove them. I need your help. Whatever is infecting my machine is blocking www.google.com from loading . This occurs with IE, Chrome and Firefox.
MALICIOUS URL BLOCKED
avast! Network Shield has blocked a harmful site.
[*] I will be working on your Malware issues this may or may not solve other issues you have with your machine.
[*] The fixes are specific to your problem and should only be used for this issue on this machine.
[*] If you don’t know or understand something, please don’t hesitate to ask.
[*]Please refrain from making any further changes to your computer (Install/Uninstall programs, delete files, edit the registry, etc…)
[*] Please DO NOT run any other tools or scans whilst I am helping you.
[*] It is important that you reply to this thread. Do not start a new topic.
[*] Your security programs may give warnings for some of the tools I will ask you to use. Be assured, any links I give are safe.
[*] Absence of symptoms does not mean that everything is clear.
And just to let you know, Combofix hase just deleted several legitimate files.
Did you settup this as your home page webcite?
bellsouthpwp2.net
Please download aswMBR and save it to your desktop.
Double click aswMBR.exe to start the tool. Select Yes if prompted to download the Avast database.
[*]Click Scan
[*]Upon completion of the scan ( Scan finished successfully ) click Save log and save it to your desktop, and post that log in your next reply for review. Note:do NOT attempt any Fix yet.
[*]You will also notice another file created on the desktop named MBR.dat. Right click that file and select [b]Send To>Compressed /b file. Attach that zipped file in your next reply as well.
I’ve attached the four files resulting from the two programs. The forum would not allow a zip file extension so I renamed MBR.zip to MBR.jpg. You’ll have to change the file extension back to zip.
Easy, we have not yet finished. When I put to uninstall used tools, and when I bee free to tell you that your system is clean, then you know thats the end.
[*]Re-run TDSSKiller.exe and click on Change parametres.
[*]Under Additional options check the boxes next to Verify Driver Digital Signature and Detect TDLFS file system, then click OK
[*]Click on Start Scan.
[*]If an infected file is detected, the default action will be Cure, click on
[*]If a suspicious file is detected, the default action will be Skip, click on Continue.
[*]It may ask you to reboot the computer to complete the process. Click on Reboot Now.
[*]Click the Report button and copy/paste the contents of it into your next reply Note:It will also create a log in the [b]C:[/b] directory.
Well,you had what we call an some variant of MBR rootkit infection.
It lives outside of the Windows operating system but delivers it’s payload into Windows.
Since it’s not within Windows itself, your resident security program may have difficulties dealing with it.
YEE HAW! I want you to know that I greatly appreciate all your help. I can tell from the timestamps on the messages that you must spend most of your waking hours helping others. It is appreciated. Get some rest