Re: faultrep.dll Can't fix

Christopher Muto wrote:
Boris wrote:
"RnR" <rnrtexas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:04:07 +0000 (UTC), Boris
<nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Christopher Muto <muto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:VJadnRePF-M-
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William R. Walsh wrote:
Hi!

Any ideas?
Yeah. From what information you've presented, the nature of the
crash really doesn't make sense. Nor do the unexpected lockups.

I think you may have a hardware problem. You should download and
run a copy of Memtest 86 for starters and let it go for a few
hours. Or you can use Dell Diagnostics if they are still installed
on your system. (F12 at startup.)

William
that plus ( and possibly first) download/install/run the free
software from www.malwarebytes.org. also, upgrade your internet
explorer to ie8 along with everything else for windows via mutilple
visits to http://update.microsoft.com

Hi,

The primary problem is that it takes forever to get anywhere on the internet, and sometimes will just lock up so that I have to reboot. Email (Outlook Express) works fine. AIM works fine.

A few days ago, before I did anything, I hunted for malware. I've got
Avast running in real time, and I also did a full scan with Avast. Nothing found but the normal cookies. I ran HijackThis, and the log showed nothing.

I flushed the DNS.

Last night, I ran the Dell Diagnostics, including the longer memory
test. All passed.

I was just about to download and run Malwarebytes, but when I try to
go to malwarebytes.org, I get redirected to different sites each time.
Once to buyonelinedating.com, once to zanuga.com, once to...oh well,
you get the idea. This is completely new. I have Avast running, not
that it would catch everything.

I ran HijackThis just now, and nothing.

When I came out of HijackThis, my screen popped up a window that said Warning you are infected and should buy Cyber Security. I tried to
get to taskmanager to shut the window down, but another window popped
up saying that taskmanager had been disabled by my administrator. Oh,
crap, this is a real nasty one, and not at all what I started out to
solve, or at least it didn't show up a few days ago. Then, another
window popped up and said it was installing Internet Security 2010 (a
known trojan/virus). I pushed the on/off button. But, it was too
late, because I just rebooted the machine, and I got the Spyware Alert
window that this trojan creates. "Worm.Win32NetSky detected on your
machine."
http://tinyurl.com/yc4qp86

Hmmm...I see doing things like installing Malwarebytes via flash
drive, and possilby having to run from Safe Mode.

By the way, this all started about a week after my wife started doing
her Christmas shopping full bore online.

Back to the hunt.

Bite the bullet and do a complete (clean) reinstall. It sounds like a
virus if you get redirected regardless of what your antivirus software
is telling you. I say this because the time you spend trying to fix
the problem will likely take longer than biting the bullet. I had to
do this myself not that long ago on one laptop of mine.


RnR,

I'm starting to agree. What I've found is that this primarily happens when I use the google search engine. I click on a legitimate link like malwarebytes.org, and I'm taken to bcckools.com, deneg.org, or thewebinternet.com, etc. Hitting the back button gets me to some other fake site. Many times when I land on a site, Avast pops up, the siren sounds, and says I've landed on a trojan, and do I want to disconnect. It all seems to be getting worse. Since I began this about a week ago, I've spent more than 16 hours on it (not all attended). A reinstall is no big deal, there's little data that I have to save, and it's not my machine.

I sort of like chasing malware, but I guess the assholes won this one.

Thanks

boris, sounds like you are infected. look at the thread dated 12/2 titled "bsod virus" and others regarding antivirus pro. i tried very hard to repair this infection for academic reasons but could not. others say it is not hard to cure if you can put your hard disk into a good working computer as a secondary driver so it can be scanned/cleaned. otherwise you need to rebuild from scratch. but at least you can still backup your data. i find it worth the expense to just purchase a new drive and rebuild on that. once rebuilt temporarily attach the original drive to copy your data from the old to the new. good luck.

The other approach is to boot with the ultimate boot disk, cripple the virus by deleting its files and the files it hides somewhere under either All Users or the primary user name, reboot and clean up the registry... Ben Myers
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