System Meltdown

[Lewis Young]

Well I've gone and done it to my Gateway XP now!
Guess I picked up a series of malware programs containing trojans.
First my spyware and anti-virus programs failed to detect them then I lost
my task manager. Now I have lost access to my administrator.
I managed to download a malware cleaning program using this old HP Win 98
computer and that was how I found all the corruption.
After trying installatin 3 times I was able to install on the fourth.
But as luck would have it when cleaning the system I lost my winsock, IE and
all internet access.
System restore does not seem to work as it should restore from the
partitioned hard drive.
I'm trying to get restore disks from Gateway but that seems to be a problem
as I am unable to complete the order.

Anyone have any suggestions as to how I can reinstall the window sockects as
I am note overly savy on the deep down technical aspects of computers.
I've tried reinstalling IE 7 but am getting runtime errors??
Figure I'll need to change my IP address when I have it back up and running
and it was suggested that I may need to change the hard drive as well if the
infection was to bad.

Any help would be appriciated.
Thanks

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Lewis Young" <[email protected]>

| Well I've gone and done it to my Gateway XP now!
| Guess I picked up a series of malware programs containing trojans.
| First my spyware and anti-virus programs failed to detect them then I lost
| my task manager. Now I have lost access to my administrator.
| I managed to download a malware cleaning program using this old HP Win 98
| computer and that was how I found all the corruption.
| After trying installatin 3 times I was able to install on the fourth.
| But as luck would have it when cleaning the system I lost my winsock, IE and
| all internet access.
| System restore does not seem to work as it should restore from the
| partitioned hard drive.
| I'm trying to get restore disks from Gateway but that seems to be a problem
| as I am unable to complete the order.

| Anyone have any suggestions as to how I can reinstall the window sockects as
| I am note overly savy on the deep down technical aspects of computers.
| I've tried reinstalling IE 7 but am getting runtime errors??
| Figure I'll need to change my IP address when I have it back up and running
| and it was suggested that I may need to change the hard drive as well if the
| infection was to bad.

| Any help would be appriciated.
| Thanks



Download and execute HiJack This! (HJT)
http://www.trendsecure.com/portal/en-US/_download/HJTInstall.exe

Then post the contents of the HJT log in your post in one of the below expert forums...

{ Please - Do NOT post the HJT Log here ! }

Forums where you can get expert advice for HiJack This! (HJT) Logs.

NOTE: Registration is REQUIRED in any of the below before posting a log

Suggested primary:
http://www.thespykiller.co.uk/index.php?board=3.0

Suggested secondary:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/forum22.html
http://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/index.php?showforum=7

Suggested tertiary:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/cleanup
http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=25
http://www.atribune.org/forums/index.php?showforum=9
http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/Malware_Removal_HiJackThis_Logs_Go_Here-f37.html
http://gladiator-antivirus.com/forum/index.php?showforum=170
http://forum.networktechs.com/forumdisplay.php?f=130
http://forums.maddoktor2.com/index.php?showforum=17
http://www.spywarewarrior.com/viewforum.php?f=5
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showforum=18
http://forums.techguy.org/f54-s.html
http://forums.tomcoyote.org/index.php?showforum=27
http://forums.subratam.org/index.php?showforum=7
http://www.5starsupport.com/ipboard/index.php?showforum=18
http://aumha.net/viewforum.php?f=30
http://makephpbb.com/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=2
http://forums.techguy.org/54-security/
http://forums.security-central.us/forumdisplay.php?f=13