what is going on?

dawnsong

Hi,
can anyone enlighten me as to what is going on. My computer has slowed to a snail's pace and keeps freezing the last couple of days. My outlook express inbox has been loading for the last hour and a message comes up saying - receiving 7574 of 7708 messages! ??

thanks
dawnsong

Browntoa

to eliminate the obvious , do the following to make sure no nasties hiding

Please download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and save it to your desktop.

• Make sure you are connected to the Internet.
• Double-click on mbam-setup.exe to install the application.
• When the installation begins, follow the prompts and do not make any changes to default settings.
• When installation has finished, make sure you leave both of these checked:
  • Update Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
  • Launch Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
• Then click Finish.
• MBAM will automatically start and you will be asked to update the program before performing a scan. If an update is found, the program will automatically update itself. Press the OK button to close that box and continue. If you encounter any problems while downloading the updates, manually download them from here and just double-click on mbam-rules.exe to install.
• On the Scanner tab:
  • Make sure the "Perform Quick Scan" option is selected.
  • Then click on the Scan button.
• If asked to select the drives to scan, leave all the drives selected and click on the Start Scan button.
• The scan will begin and "Scan in progress" will show at the top. It may take some time to complete so please be patient.
• When the scan is finished, a message box will say "The scan completed successfully. Click 'Show Results' to display all objects found".
• Click OK to close the message box and continue with the removal process.
• Back at the main Scanner screen, click on the Show Results button to see a list of any malware that was found.
• Make sure that everything is checked, and click Remove Selected.
• When removal is completed, a log report will open in Notepad.
• The log is automatically saved and can be viewed by clicking the Logs tab in MBAM.
• Copy and paste the contents of that report in your next reply and exit MBAM.

Note: If MBAM encounters a file that is difficult to remove, you may be asked to reboot your computer so it can proceed with the disinfection process. Regardless if prompted to restart the computer or not, please do so immediately. Failure to reboot normally (not into safe mode) will prevent MBAM from removing all the malware. MBAM may make changes to your registry as part of its disinfection routine. If you're using other security programs that detect registry changes, they may alert you after scanning with MBAM. Please permit the program to allow the changes.

dawnsong

hi,
thanks for your reply. I had run mal anti-mal before I posted, but nothing came up. When I checked I realised it wasn't updated (thanks) and when updated, a trojan spambot came up. this is the log
Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.40
Database version: 2551
Windows 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2

06/09/2009 15:28:58
mbam-log-2009-09-06 (15-28-58).txt

Scan type: Quick Scan
Objects scanned: 92291
Time elapsed: 10 minute(s), 8 second(s)

Memory Processes Infected: 0
Memory Modules Infected: 0
Registry Keys Infected: 0
Registry Values Infected: 0
Registry Data Items Infected: 0
Folders Infected: 0
Files Infected: 1

Memory Processes Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Memory Modules Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Registry Keys Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Registry Values Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Registry Data Items Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Folders Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Files Infected:
C:\Documents and Settings\Thomas\Local Settings\Temp\pdfupd.exe (Trojan.Spambot) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.

however outlook express is still trying to load 7,000+ plus msgs into my inbox.

davester

sure the account informations hasnt been changed to some other account which spams your outlook.

macman

You need to run a Full Scan with MBAM, you have only run the Quick Scan.

dawnsong

will try running full scan - thnx

-TangleFoot-

dawnsong wrote: »

Files Infected:
C:\Documents and Settings\Thomas\Local Settings\Temp\pdfupd.exe (Trojan.Spambot) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.[/COLOR]

however outlook express is still trying to load 7,000+ plus msgs into my inbox.

You may be getting non-delivery notifications. Can you access your e-mail account using Mail2Web?

Browntoa

"PDFUDP.EXE" isrelated to Outlook express problems , reads/steals Address books

http://www.prevx.com/filenames/1104395637561829493-X1/PDFUPD.EXE.html

suspect its a mailer as well , or it may just use your address book to spam elsewhere ( hence those 1000's of emails you are trying to download)

Malware bytes has removed it but a full scan will no go amiss to be sure

donwload and install this

http://www.filehippo.com/download_hijackthis/

Download
Latest Version
793KB

do a scan and post the log it produces

davester

They should have come up with a better name for this great program, just sounds like a nasty piece of malware that will take over your machine and use its webcam to watch you sleep and uses the speaker to play Loudheavybreathing.mp3

-TangleFoot-

Browntoa wrote: »

http://www.filehippo.com/download_hijackthis/

Alternatively:

http://free.antivirus.com/hijackthis/

dawnsong

thnx all
have run full mal anti-mal scan - clear - trojan is in quarantine - do i delete it?, i htought it was already removed.. just looked my mailbox and i've got multiple copies of all my emails , 1000+ to what i had this morning. tried to stop it but can't. didn't know about the mail2web service - thnx for that -have just tried but it won't load. will try the hippo now and post log.