best pc health components control center - anyone seen this??

[scully]

hijacked all processes
safe mode - alt f4 altx altq esc
wont shut it down - - cant find any way to track the offending file
it sits in the center of the screenshowing x amount of errors etc
open the license manager is all you can do and it attempts to load a
web page
scul
scul

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "scully" <[email protected]>

| hijacked all processes
| safe mode - alt f4 altx altq esc
| wont shut it down - - cant find any way to track the offending file
| it sits in the center of the screenshowing x amount of errors etc
| open the license manager is all you can do and it attempts to load a
| web page
| scul
| scul

Does it load in Safe Mode ?

 

[pc_repair_man]

Update on PC Health Control Center

Just came across this from a repair job. Couldn't get past the Control center splash screen, couldn't boot into safe mode.

Removed the HDD and hooked it up to a clean machine as an external HDD and spent several hours scanning it with Avast and MBAM. This thing has gotten itself all over the place, including iTunes, Yahoo Browser, all over windows\system32, MS Office, Adob, AVG and a whole bunch of root kit infections. Even scanning as an external HDD it wouldn't allow Avast to delete infected files, only by using MBAM File Assassin. I finally got several completely clean scans, so popped the HDD back into the host PC, fully expecting Windows not to boot, but it did, and .. still getting the splash screen!

I guess it's got itself embedded in the registry. Can't see much els eto do short of a clean install. I guess I could mess about trying to edit the registry as an externally connected drive, but not sure it's worth the hassle.

PC is running XP with AVG, reasonably up to date. Seems to be a fairly innocuous browsing session when it happened (yesterday, 11/14/09)

I'm guessing this is a fairly new version to be this tenacious. Doesn't seem to be that much on Google.

Anyone else have any experience on this one?

 

[Marty Lobaugh]

From: "scully" <[email protected]>

| hijacked all processes
| safe mode - alt f4 altx altq esc
| wont shut it down - - cant find any way to track the offending file
| it sits in the center of the screenshowing x amount of errors etc
| open the license manager is all you can do and it attempts to load a
| web page
| scul
| scul

Does it load in Safe Mode ?

Just had the same problem, and I can run in safe mode but I can't do a
system restore. Not sure how to fix the problem yet.

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Marty Lobaugh" <[email protected]>


| Just had the same problem, and I can run in safe mode but I can't do a
| system restore. Not sure how to fix the problem yet.

ist start to killing and running processes associated with this and then find where the
load posints are such as the Reguistry Run and Programs/Startup and remove the rogue from
startup.

Then reboot in Normal Mode and install Malwarebyte's Anti Malware, update it and scan the
system.