wpad.dat virus

Viruses and worms
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Hi,

I have encountered a virus of some sort. I keep getting the avast pop-up stating that a threat has been detected. When I view the task manager, I see an application is running (partial name is: http://46.165.229.29/wpad.dat?n). I attempted to kill it; however, it will not die. So, I went to processes and a few iexplore.exe processes are running. After I kill them, then the wpad.dat application dies. However, seconds later, it respawns. The avast pop-up (threat has been detected) pops up continuously. Attached is a screen capture of the task manager running the application and the pop-up from avast.

Can someone please help me remove this virus? I also downloaded and ran OTL. Attached is the OTL also.

Thank you, Vickie

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I just ran an mbam scan, checked everything and removed everything. After disinfection, it prompted me to restart. I am still getting the pop-ups and the wpad application is still running. I attached the mbam log.

Thank you,

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hey also attach the logs from adwclener,otl and aswmbr, from this guide.

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=53253.0

begin with adwclener then otl and then aswmbr.

awclener will remove any toolbar or other crapware from your browser.

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Monitoring.

5

Hi mikaelrask,

Phel (from geekstogo) picked up my initial post from that forum. So, I will work with that person on this issue. Thanks for your response.

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That’s good he is one of my students there, so you get two analysts for the price of one :slight_smile: