crudded up computer

[LLUncoolJ]

Today my work computer was all crudded up with malware. Not sure how, as this sight is probably the most questionable of the sites I access with it. We deploy McAfee, but the crap gave it the slip. Anyway, spent half the day battling it, and while I'm not a real IT person, I'm the closest thing our company has in-house. I think I beat it and here were the tools:

First downloaded Malwarebytes and ran it. It found 5 instances and terminated them, thought I was in the clear. Scanned it with MB again, then scanned it with McAfee...nothing.
Then, every now and then a random IE window would open with a Lycos search in it. So I tried GMER, which crashed my computer at a different point in the scan 5 times.
Then I downloaded tdskiller and ran it. Took all of 15 seconds and found and eliminated the critter. So far, so good...knock on wood.

So I hope this helps if you get crudded up any time soon.

[DaOld Man]

Turn off system restore, run malwarebytes in safe mode.
Turn restore back on after it's clean.

[Ed_McCarron]

Before running MWB, run rkill.  It'll terminate most known malware processes and let you run other things.

It's updated fairly often, so make sure you get a fresh copy.

[Malenko]

www.bleepingcomputer.com/combofix

^godsend

Ive used it 3 times, only once for myself. Worked perfectly and its free. It works so well I donated , and that means A LOT.

[newmanfamilyvlogs]

+1 on rkill.

I've got two computers on the bench behind me chewing away on some AV scans, and you can't do jack on them until you run rkill first.

[8way]

Reinstall fresh copy of windows. Best solution.

[newmanfamilyvlogs]

Reinstall fresh copy of windows. Best solution.

Only for very low values of 'Best' (: