Sorry, let me be a little more detailed. Many times there are quite a
few things that malware will install. Although all those automatic
removers say you are clean, there may be a key or two in the registry
that need to be reset/eliminated. If you knew what the original malware
infection was named, you could search on removal methods, then be able
to tell if anything was missed by automatic removal. I've had that
happen to me.
On 12/16/2012 4:35 PM, Bobby Heid wrote:
So far, it "appears" clean after all of the malware scans.
Thanks,
Bobby
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve
Tomporowski
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2012 4:29 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [H] Infection question
Trojan.MalJava!gen21 is usually installed by malware to download advertising
files. If you can find out which malware installed it, you can possibly
search for removal methods.
On 12/16/2012 3:08 PM, Bobby Heid wrote:
Hey,
Before I nuke a friend's laptop, I figured I'd throw it out here to see
what
I can get.
She downloaded something and then started getting blue screens. This is
where I got it. I started it in safe mode and ran anti-malware bytes
(several times), SpyBot, super antispyware, online Symantec scanner, and
some other online scanner.
Malware bytes cleaned several items, so did Spybot. The Symantec scanner
said it had the Trojan.MalJava!gen21 (iirc). I have not ran the Symantec
one since the others cleaned stuff. The other online scanner found
nothing.
Malware bytes and Spybot now return clean.
If I boot into normal mode (Vista Home), I do not get blue screen anymore.
But I get the progress bar from the Vista start screen, then the screen
goes
black. I can see the HD access for a while, then nothing. This leaves me
to believe that it might have been one of those scare ware infections that
do not let you get to your desktop.
Any ideas before I nuke and repave? Going to wipe it in the next few
hours
if I don't hear anything.
Thanks,
Bobby
