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Vundo and possible other infections
Hello,
I will briefly summarise the history of my problem. I'm running Wndows XP SP2 with ZoneAlarm and manually updated PC-cillin which I am planning to replace with AVG.
After noticing computer was slow I ran AdAware. During the process the computer crashed and I could not start Windows as pci.sys was missing. I downloaded a recovery console for Windows XP Home Edition with SP2 included (I have a legal copy of Windows XP Home Edition) and managed to repair the system by running chkdsk /r. I ran Malwarebytes which reported a Vundo infection and attempted to clean it but it kept coming back. I ran VundoFix (as I had this problem before) and it further cleaned 3 files. Connecting to the internet resulted in a reinfection which was again "cleaned". Malwarebytes at the moment reports no infection and neither does VundoFix. I also ran HJT a couple of times and repaired entries which I confirmed online were Vundo entries.
However, I am unable to see any drives in Disk Management. When I plug in a USB stick, it reports it as a hi-speed stick plugged into a slow port but the drive never shows up in My Computer. Computer gets suspiciously "worked up" and slow when it connects to the internet. On Windows startup I've had Acrobat Distiller being reported as encountering a problem and needing to close.
I tried running GMER as advised but I got the blue screen od death (fatal error) when I started the scan. Twice. I am therefore not in position to post ark.txt, sorry. Is there an alternative? I have the DDS logs attached. Will that suffice? I can also produce a HJT log.
Please let me know and thanks for the advice.
Cadmus
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