Hi Maq2000 and welcome to TechSupport!
Use Internet Explorer to download ATF-I get an error when I use Firefox.
Please download
ATF Cleaner by Atribune.
This program is for XP and Windows 2000 only- Double-click ATF-Cleaner.exe to run the program.
- Under Main choose: Select All
- Click the Empty Selected button.
If you use Firefox browser- Click Firefox at the top and choose:Select All
- Click the Empty Selected button.
- NOTE: If you would like to keep your saved passwords, please click
- No at the prompt.
If you use Opera browser- Click Opera at the top and choose: Select All
- Click the Empty Selected button.
- NOTE:If you would like to keep your saved passwords, please click No at the prompt.
Click
Exit on the Main menu to close the program.
For
Technical Support, double-click the e-mail address located at the bottom of each menu.
STEP 1.
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Stop and Disable Service- Go to Start > Run and type in Services.msc then cllick OK
- Click the Extended tab.
- Scroll down until you find Boonty Games - BOONTY
- Click once on the service to highlight it.
- Click Stop
- Right-Click on the service.
- Click on 'Properties'
- Select the 'General' tab
- Click the Arrow-down tab on the right-hand side on the 'Start-up Type' box
- From the drop-down menu, click on ‘Disabled'
- Click the 'Apply' tab, then click 'OK'
The service is now stopped and disabled.
Please set your system to show all files;
please see here if you're unsure how to do this.
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Close all programs leaving only HijackThis running. Place a check against each of the following, making sure you get them all and not any others by mistake:
O2 - BHO: C:\WINDOWS\System32\ahd838jdgh.dll - {A25849C4-93F3-429D-FF34-260A2068897C} - C:\WINDOWS\System32\ahd838jdgh.dll (file missing)
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Intel system tool] C:\WINDOWS\system32\svehost.exe
O23 - Service: Boonty Games - BOONTY - C:\Program Files\Common Files\BOONTY Shared\Service\Boonty.exe
Click on Fix Checked when finished and exit HijackThis.
Reboot into Safe Mode: please
see here if you are not sure how to do this.
Using Windows Explorer, locate the following files/folders, and delete them:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svehost.exe<=file
C:\Program Files\Common Files\BOONTY Shared\<=folder
Exit Explorer, and reboot as normal afterwards.
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Please download
AVG Anti-Spyware from
HERE
and save that file to your
desktop.
This is a 30 day trial of the program- Once you have downloaded ewido anti-spyware, locate the icon on the desktop
and double-click it to launch the set up program.
- Once the setup is complete you will need run ewido and update the definition files.
- On the main screen
- select the icon "Update"
- then select the "Update now" link.
- Next select the "Start Update" button,
the update will start and a progress bar will show the updates being installed.
- Once the update has completed select the "Scanner" icon at the top of
the screen, then select the "Settings" tab.
- Once in the Settings screen click on "Recommended actions" and then
select ""Quarantine".".
- Under "Reports"
- Select "Automatically generate report after every scan"
- Un-Select "Only if threats were found
"
Close AVG Anti-Spyware, Do Not run a scan just yet, we will shortly.
- Reboot your computer into SafeMode. You can do this by restarting
your computer and continually tapping the F8 key until a menu appears.
Use your up arrow key to highlight SafeMode then hit enter.
IMPORTANT: Do not open any other windows or
programs while ewido is scanning, it may interfere with the scanning proccess:
- Lauch ewido-anti-spyware by double-clicking the icon on your desktop.
- Select the "Scanner" icon at the top and then the "Scan" tab
then click on "Complete System Scan".
- AVG Anti-Spyware will now begin the scanning process, be patient this may take a little time.
Once the scan is complete do the following:
- If you have any infections you will prompted, then select "Apply all
actions"
- Next select the "Reports" icon at the top.
- Select the "Save report as" button in the lower left hand of the
screen and save it to a text file on your system (make sure to remember where
you saved that file, this is important).
- Close AVG Anti-Spyware and reboot your system back into Normal Mode.
Post back a fresh HijackThis log and the results from AVG anti-spyware.