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zionstrat:
Spent a week trying to recover a PC and will have to take it in- I notice that you asked for feedback, your app is one of the few that could run, but like most of them, it hung up after 5 minutes or so-

Only Kaspersky is able to keep the PC running, but it can't 'see the virus, so it doesn't do any good (maybe you guys could team up)-

Here's the thread with logs in case it gives you any ideas-

http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?showtopic=133799&page=6
Cheers

ZS

Willy2:
You say that WR 'hung up" after ~ 5 minutes. Some repairs in WR v1.9.18 (especially "04 - Repair WMI") simply take a long time (think minutes) to complete. And then it looks like the program has "hung up" when the program is still busy.

I have a good hunch where WR could "hang up" but without more info from you it remains a guess. So, can you tell me where WR "hangs up" ?

zionstrat:
Oh no, it's far more evil than that:)

The computer only runs for about 5 minutes- Then it does a dvd read- Then the apps hangs up- about a minute later it goes bsod-

Your app made it through stage 1 of the fix-

It's interesting, most other apps (that are really fast) are caused to hang up when they are looking at a specific file (I assume it is a malicious file)- They will make it to a specific file, they will sit there for 2-3 minutes, the disk will do a read and then the app is freed up and starts flying through the files again-

The problem is that the system is already shutting down and they will hit bsod before they can write the report.

Read the threads if you want more- The avast people said that it looks simply too messed up to fix- (interdestign becaues this infection occured while avast was in command:)

On the other thread, we got Kasparsky to keep the computer from crashing, however, it cant find the problem, so I think this was a particularly evil one-

Thanks for the feedback!
ZS

zionstrat:
Also,  I have a question about next steps-

I am pretty sure that this virus is a hang on from a crash I had last year- The symptoms are exactly alike-
!. I was running AVG on the first crash- It behaved just like this, I saved off the files, and built an entirely new computer after we gave up.
2. I switched to Avast and checked everything before I moved files- I also searched with Malware bytes, and Ccleaner and all was well-
3. This is a dedicated audio production computer so I have to download lots of drivers from music software vendors, but otherwise, this computer is kept as safe as possible.

So it seems most likely that this monster lives somewhere in those files and I'm afraid it will come back- So here are 2 questions-
1. How can I scan those files and find this thing?
2. How can I back up in such a way that recovery is possible (I do restore points constantly and they all were deleted)-

Thanks for any and all ideas!
ZS

Willy2:
- Yes, that's a REAL nasty one.
- It's not my app but I have a good knowledge of what's going on "inside" WR.

Although I am not the author of the app, I can offer some advice:
- Tell the vendors their drivers/software are infected.
- Install Tweaking's Registry Backup. That's ALWAYS a good idea, no matter what. And especially because the malware deletes the restore points.
- Switch on Kasparsky and try to run a number of other WR repairs. (I know, some repairs will fail, but this is the best way to try to run WR). Or try WR in "Safe Mode".

Perhaps Shane has some better advice.

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