I recently brought a computer back from a boarding environment, to find that it had more viruses in it than my cooking, and after alot of stressing I searched the net and downloaded AVG, Microsoft Anti-Spyware and Hijack-This. After a brief yet intense bout of obliterating every running process and file I could find (wearing a Rambo bandana, of course) that was not MSN Messenger. These days it is, to the best of my knowledge, virus free, however a HTML file that is over my desktop. In a hissy-fit I tracked down the actual file it displayed (Just a message about "Click here to remove the virus" which was not very convincing) so my desktop is now a perpetually white HTML file. Interestingly google is more than happy to translate it into English for me :/
Back to my point (which I left in the dirt somewhere around "Rambo Bandana") I really am quite eager to get a desktop wallpaper back (I have this great pure white one i use....... :/ ).
Before I put up a Hijack-This logfile, here's some information that might help.
- I'm using Windows XP Family Edition, Internet Explorer 6, A demo of Style XP which is now unregistered and not particularly pretty, and my Year 12 soccer team didn't win a single game, convincing me that rugby is, infact, the better game. And that I'm not a very good goalee.
Also, here's my Hijack-This logfile, which is pretty small due to a mad rampage of "Fixing" (Insert mushroom cloud):
Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 7:57:42 PM, on 7/7/2005
Platform: Windows XP (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 (6.00.2600.0000)
Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\nvsvc32.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
C:\Program Files\QuickTime\qttask.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVGFRE~1\avgcc.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVGFRE~1\avgemc.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Real\Update_OB\realsched.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\Program Files\MSN Messenger\msnmsgr.exe
C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
C:\Documents and Settings\chris blair\Desktop\HijackThis.exe
O2 - BHO: Google Toolbar Helper - {AA58ED58-01DD-4d91-8333-CF10577473F7} - c:\program files\google\googletoolbar2.dll
O3 - Toolbar: &Radio - {8E718888-423F-11D2-876E-00A0C9082467} - C:\WINDOWS\System32\msdxm.ocx
O3 - Toolbar: &Google - {2318C2B1-4965-11d4-9B18-009027A5CD4F} - c:\program files\google\googletoolbar2.dll
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [QuickTime Task] "C:\Program Files\QuickTime\qttask.exe" -atboottime
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AVG7_CC] C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVGFRE~1\avgcc.exe /STARTUP
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AVG7_EMC] C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVGFRE~1\avgemc.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [TkBellExe] "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Real\Update_OB\realsched.exe" -osboot
O4 - Global Startup: OSA.exe
O8 - Extra context menu item: &Google Search - res://c:\program files\google\GoogleToolbar2.dll/cmsearch.html
O8 - Extra context menu item: Similar Pages - res://c:\program files\google\GoogleToolbar2.dll/cmsimilar.html
O8 - Extra context menu item: Translate into English - res://c:\program files\google\GoogleToolbar2.dll/cmtrans.html
O23 - Service: NVIDIA Driver Helper Service (NVSvc) - NVIDIA Corporation - C:\WINDOWS\System32\nvsvc32.exe
And to wrap this up (just like that T-Shirt my parents gave me every Christmas as a kid) I'll add 2 more bits of info.
Firstly, I have several instances of SCVhost.exe, both on my drive and in running processes, and second I can see my desktop icons, they appear over the HTML file. Also I just remembered, If I log on with a different account, the desktop is normal.
Ok guys, sorry that's so long, and I sincerely hope you guys can help me out, staring at my desktop used to be my favourite pass-time.
Thanks Guys ^^