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Scary IE7/Spyware suspicion problem

Discussion in 'Malware and Virus Removal Archive' started by Rosseiro, 2007/12/26.

  1. 2007/12/26
    Rosseiro

    Rosseiro Inactive Thread Starter

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    This is driving me crazy. Although I use FF, IE should be working fine. My OS is WInXP Home SP2.

    When I try accessing ANY address in IE7, this shows up:

    [​IMG]

    Which, translating, means: "Address Bar:
    (url) is not available right now. "

    I tried a scan with Spybot 1.4, that could successfully update (been a long since I last scanned with it) but, when the scan is approx @ 75%, it crashes with no error message. When I retry the scan, the same errors are found at the beginning of the scan but at the same ~75% it shuts suddenly.

    Then I tried installing Ad-Aware 2007; the installation was unsuccessful "because of an inner problem ". I downloaded a fresh setup of their website (after making a registry clean) and installed successfully, however, the webupdate won't download the last definitions, no matter what I do.

    I tried deinstalling (downgrading) IE7 back to IE6 to make a "fresh" install of it, now I regret: I can't get the security updates/hotfixes to download. It stays forever in the "Obtaining the latest updates to IE7" progressbar.

    HijackThis! does nothing but displaying this:

    [​IMG]


    What is this? What is going on? What should I do? Should I be scared? :p
     
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  2. 2008/01/03
    MilesAhead

    MilesAhead Inactive

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    in the meantime

    I'm not an expert on browser hijacks and virus/adware removal so all I can suggest in the meantime is to run this little freeware called Process Killer 2.0. I add iexplore.exe to the "process to kill" pane and check "autokill ".
    If any program launches IE it pops up and is killed off right away.

    It's a good little program to have esp. if you don't like lots of little annoying popups to tell you that some thing or other that's working perfectly has an update. :)

    http://www.aiglonsoft.com/download.htm
     
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  4. 2008/01/03
    PeteC

    PeteC SuperGeek Staff

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    Rosseiro - Welcome to the Board :)

    Scared - No, worried - Yes

    Try a download of HJT through Quicklinks in my signature - no idea which version/source you are using and try again.

    In the meantime I have moved your thread to the Removing Spyware & Viruses forum.

    With all due respect to MilesAhead (thanks for the input) please ignore his/her suggestion and let our trained experts deal with it :)
     
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  5. 2008/01/04
    Rosseiro

    Rosseiro Inactive Thread Starter

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    Not a problem Pete! I got it sorted, mysteriously but did. At first (during several days) it refused to download the updates. Now it magically did, so I could upgrade to IE7, plus I installed one AV, nod32 and made some scans for malware with some other programs. Thanks for the suggestion about the Process Killer though! :)
     
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