- Oct 16, 2013
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I'm so frustrated please help. Been working on my sister in laws WinVista computer for days. Her sons computer was badly infected with malware and trojans.
I did a clean install of rKill, AdwCleaner, ComboFix, RootRepeal, CCleaner Malwarebytes, Spybot S&D and the full trial version of AVG. I ran multiple scans in safe mode and regular startup until no more malicious software was fund.
Pryor to, after and during the scanning process I was also frequently getting the BSOD. Sometimes the BSOD would pop up on startup and sometimes durring a scan or after a scan, while updting windows or when accessing windows explorer. I decided to do a full system hardware scan and everything passed.
After believing that I now had a clean system I continued to get the BSOD. Disgusted, I figured that there must be some corrupt files on the system and I decided to reformat and reinstall Win-Vista from their Dell reinstall disk.
After formatting the drive, installing the Win Vista SP1, the drivers and doing Windows Update several times. I suddenly got a pop up from Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool saying that malicious software was detected. I first thought that it was a false positive since I reformatted the drive but, I did a further scan with MMSRT and found out that I have the Tojan: win64/alreon.gen!a Apparently this trojan corrupts the master boot record and it was NEVER detected by any of the previous scans prior to the reformat.
I was under the impression that when you reformat it also formats the MBR?
Anyway, that's where I'm at and not sure how to proceed. I think it would be simpler to reformat and reinstall again if I could reformat the MBR instead of trying to get rid of the trojan some other way through more scans.
Thanks for any help.
Tom
I did a clean install of rKill, AdwCleaner, ComboFix, RootRepeal, CCleaner Malwarebytes, Spybot S&D and the full trial version of AVG. I ran multiple scans in safe mode and regular startup until no more malicious software was fund.
Pryor to, after and during the scanning process I was also frequently getting the BSOD. Sometimes the BSOD would pop up on startup and sometimes durring a scan or after a scan, while updting windows or when accessing windows explorer. I decided to do a full system hardware scan and everything passed.
After believing that I now had a clean system I continued to get the BSOD. Disgusted, I figured that there must be some corrupt files on the system and I decided to reformat and reinstall Win-Vista from their Dell reinstall disk.
After formatting the drive, installing the Win Vista SP1, the drivers and doing Windows Update several times. I suddenly got a pop up from Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool saying that malicious software was detected. I first thought that it was a false positive since I reformatted the drive but, I did a further scan with MMSRT and found out that I have the Tojan: win64/alreon.gen!a Apparently this trojan corrupts the master boot record and it was NEVER detected by any of the previous scans prior to the reformat.
I was under the impression that when you reformat it also formats the MBR?
Anyway, that's where I'm at and not sure how to proceed. I think it would be simpler to reformat and reinstall again if I could reformat the MBR instead of trying to get rid of the trojan some other way through more scans.
Thanks for any help.
Tom
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