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Unable to rkill.exe the malware to run tests

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Regarding this post earlier.



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It's likely that the infection is preventing our tools from running. The following tool will help running them.

If you have an active internet connection, copy/paste the links below into your browser, don't click them or the rogue might redirect. If you don't have an active internet connection, download the tools from another machine, and transfer them to the affected machine via USB flash drive.


Please download and run the following tool to help allow other programs to run. (courtesy of BleepingComputer.com)

There are 4 different versions. If one of them won't run then download and try to run the other one. You only need to get one of them to run, not all of them.

Vista and Win7 users need to right click and choose Run as Admin

http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/grinler/rkill.exe
http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/grinler/rkill.com
http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/grinler/rkill.scr
http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/grinler/rkill.pif (note bad link)

Note: You will likely see a message from this rogue telling you the file is infected. Ignore the message. Leave the message OPEN, do not close the message. Run rkill repeatedly until it's able to do it's job. This may take a few tries. You'll be able to tell rkill has done it's job when your desktop (explorer.exe) cycles off and then on again.

At this point, you should now be able to run analysis tools



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I've been able to run 3 of 4 of those rkills. None of the 3 have worked after minutes of constantly clicking them, after a second the window closes down. I'm not sure it the virus is closing them or if the software only lasts a second each attempt.

The point is the virus is not shifting and I don't believe I can run these tests as I can't access the internet due to it.
 
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Ok things have got a lot worse.

I managed to successfully get the rkill.exe to run, it allowed me to access the internet and download the 2 recommended applications and removed the viruses ability to close applications I opened. I ran the DDS section without a hitch and had the two files saved to my desktop. I ran GMER before realising some of the preferences needed to be unticked, when I terminated the application to fix these problems my computer went into a powerful freeze that lasted about an hour. After which I was forced to do a hard reset.

The next morning I turned the PC on only for it to not come to life, I had the manifactures splash screen but then the PC would not boot.

Pressing F8 gave me 3 options to boot but no more.

CDROM:pM-TSSTcorpCD/DVDW SH-S18
HDD : 3M-SAMSUNG HD080HJ
USB : USB FLASH MEMORY5. 00 (since removed USB stick, used to distribute the kill.exe files.)

No option for a system restore.

HELP

Regards!

http://www.techsupportforum.com/f10...-blocking-opening-of-applications-507717.html

My original post describing the premature problems in more detail.
 
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