Painkiller667

You sound to be very cool, and the ESXi and iSCSI, whatever that is, also sounds really cool... espesically with the X and the "i's" that aren't capitalized. Those things all sound very cool. Contrary to what you say, I did watch the sites I visited, do keep a firewall and updated AVG running, and somehow still got that problem.

That's my opinion too, and I agree with you. And now I'm proud that someone "from the industry" has confirmed that you don't need to reformat at every POS spyware that you get. If you're using your XP disk like a whore and use your computer only for surfing then ok. But my pc has a lot of shit on it from many years which I wouldn't want to transfer back and forth.

Of course it's safer to do a reinstall but when a known malware was found, which is known to cause only a certain kind of problem, and is deleted, it's safe to use the OS again. No backdoors were created as I have a firewall and it never gave me any alerts about that kind of stuff. Not sure what caused it, must have been some website I visited.

Yes indeed, established fact that I did get rid of it entirely. Why argue, I told you already that every symptom of the problem that was observed is gone now, and the file that caused it was deleted by hijackthis upon reboot, when it wasn't being used by the system yet.

Thanks Zimmer, I can access the link now without a problem, because as I have said and as Sparda does not believe, I COMPLETELY got rid of the malware.

Dranfu, you only have 2 posts. Did you register just so you could help me out? Awww... how sweet..

I did get rid of it Sparda. Now my google search results in all browsers go directly to the links I click and Opera no longer crashes. CMD and Regedit open once again. You are extremely unprofessional for your rank on this forum. Dranfu, yes I know there is no such thing, I just named it that to draw attention. I agree the livecd scan would be the last method before reformatting but whatever you're scanning with, if the malware was only recently created, either from scratch, or by slightly modifying the code, no scanner will pick it up. It was a very specific problem. If only you could look at that link I mentioned in my previous post, dranfu, maybe you would be able to tell whether that problem would have been scannable or not. Seems like something only a manual job would be able to get rid of.

This particular malware didn't cause my stuff to "potentially been monitored." That link that I referred to in my previous post actually DID fix it. It is pretty new and unheard of, something that you either know or you don't, but it took just a few clicks and it actually fixed my problem. No need to reformat once again. I didn't fail, I won by finding the quickest and easiest way to fix my problem. You failed by telling me three times to format and not suggesting much else other than standard procedure. digip, thanks for helping, at least you honestly tried, but I knew there's got to be an easier way. As the girl in that forum who posted the solution determined, it was a new variant of the Win32:Daonol. Here's the whole thread once again http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic208323.html

You fail. Reformatting at every single quirk goes against every single ethic of a proper hacker. I always try to find what caused the problem, isolate it, and get rid of the cause instead of just blindly reformatting every week. I almost resolved the issue without having to reformat already. Yes perhaps a reformat does take 40 minutes, but how long does it take to back up all of the settings and files on an operating system that has been used without formatting for 4 years? Obviously you wouldn't understand if all you do is format and format again. That's probably why you have so many posts. You just keep telling people "Format."

Sorry for the triple post, but I got something interesting. After getting more symptoms of the problem, I was able to find a google result that shows another person had the exact same problem as me: LINK I noticed also that the following link that is on that page closes all my browsers. If I click on it, browser closes right away. Chrome, Opera, and Firefox all close INSTANTLY when I go to that url. So I can't even access it.. http://miekiemoes.blogspot.com/2008/10/fak...archengine.html

Just noticed that regedit and cmd no longer work when typed in Run menu. "command" still works.

Are you too lazy to explain why you gave me that link? I'm not using beta Firefox and I don't think I have that problem at all.

Yeah I said I did all that.

Yep there's something on my system but I'm not going to give up that easily. Any other suggestions? I also don't feel like doing the whole boot up in safe mode or with live cd and full scan..etc. Would there be any other simpler alternatives before that kind of serious work? You guys want to see my hijack this scan? ;)

Yeah, I know that the last resort is a reformat but I've had this OS installed for several years already and have always been able to avoid the reformat. I just tried to check my router's IP address by going to cmd in the run menu, and noticed that every time I type in CMD and click enter, it is as if my explorer.exe process gets restarted momentarily. No icons or taskbar on the screen for several seconds and then back to normal. In other words, CMD does NOT open! Automatic DNS is set up in properties of TCP/IP settings, but to access my router, which isn't wireless btw, I cannot. Tried typing 192.168.1.1 and .0.1 but couldn't get it. Probably not the problem anyway. My hosts file is fine, it has no entries other than the ones made by spybot SD.

I've got a browser hijacker I believe. I've been able to get rid of any problems like this on all of my and my friends'/relatives' computers until this problem that I have now. I'm have AVG Free, MalwareBytes, Spybot SD, Spyware Doctor, CCleaner. All are updated. They have each found something, but everything was deleted and the problem still persists. My primary browser is Opera and it's acting up the most right now. Whenever I do a search on any of my browsers (opera, firefox, IE, chrome) in almost any search engine (google, live.com), it redirects me almost everytime to some BS website when I click on a result. Opera even crashes every once in a while because of this. When I try to use the Chrome browser, it also redirects, but doesn't crash like opera. Good thing opera saves my previous sessions so I never lose anything after the crashes. Any help?

Sorry for the confusion, this turned out to be a broken off 3.5mm plug. You can close the topic now.

I fused the unknown male connector seen in the picture to one end of a phone cable, and the female 3.5mm to the other end of the phone cable. So basically I need a 10 foot male (something) to 3.5mm female cable.

You don't understand my problem. The extension cable that I'm using now is made by me, hence it sucks. I need a new one that wasn't soldered together and wrapped with duct tape.

I usually leave that as my last resort.

On the other end is a female 3.5mm socket, into which a male is plugged in and that cable has a Red and White plug on it's end.

I did google for about half an hour and it seems pretty silly that I couldn't find this simple audio plug. However L1716A does not tell me which cable to buy. My problem is that I need the name of the plug like "3.5mm" so that I can buy the long version of it. I had this one with just a foot of cable so I extended it myself through soldering, but I need a more reliable extension now, so I need to buy a 10' cable with this plug at the end.

The 3.5mm male seems to be too long. I got an HP 530. Thanks.

I've been using it for a while and now I need a longer one, but I noticed that a regular 3.5mm doesn't fit into my laptop's audio-out jack. Here is a pic of the one that does fit. I need to identify it to buy a longer cable. Thanks.

Im pretty sure im just not coding it right. I've tried it on xp sp2 and x64 and school computer, all same issues. Here's t3h c0d3z0rz: TrueCryptTrueCrypt.exe /q background /lO /m /rm /c n /v TrueCryptencryptedvolume.ass o:pstart.exe exit I've read somewhere about using vbscript to make the cmd invisible, and i find the vbs file in the switchblade packages, but it still doesnt work for me, the autorun doesnt notice my code at all. perhaps someone of greater wisdom can enlighten me on this issue.... basically when i insert the usb, i want the autorun prompt to either Open Encrypted Drive or Browse the flash drive, where if i select the encrypted, it will silently ask me for the password like it was demonstrated in the episode, and I need truecrypt to stay minimized in the taskbar because i like to hotkey dismount all and exit. Sooo... if anyone could help.. :?