Confused PC - Hijack This log

waddler_8

JohnG wrote: »

Currently everything seems to be working OK.

Well that sounds good.

Figment

JohnG wrote: »

Hi Waddler_8,
I had it saved on 'download' folder so I copied it over onto the desk top, again had to disable Avast, tried running it but still just flashes up a box very very quickly and that's it?

Did you download it directly to the affected PC or onto another PC?

Delete the copy on your desktop and try downloading it again

LINK

JohnG

Figment wrote: »

Did you download it directly to the affected PC or onto another PC?

Delete the copy on your desktop and try downloading it again

LINK

Hi Figment,

I have deleted and retried numerous times but still it won't open (apart from a split second)?
I even downloaded on my old PC (and tried it on there successfully - took a while to scan so this might have some problems on it too)
I then copied over via a usb stick but still the same result - no go.
Would this be the virus blocking it or something else on my pc that I could overide?

Figment

It seems something on your PC is preventing it from running.

Try downloading the Sophos Virus Removal Tool to your desktop. Install and then run. It will take several hours to scan your entire system, at the end of which it will show a report of anything it finds and a button to proceed with cleaning your system.

Figment

You could also use Who Crashed to analyse the crash dump files that are normally created following a system freeze/crash.

This may give some clues of what caused the system to freeze.

waddler_8

Have you tried to run DSS in safe mode?

Did you ever get Malwarebytes to complete a (quick) scan?

JohnG

waddler_8 wrote: »

Have you tried to run DSS in safe mode?

Did you ever get Malwarebytes to complete a (quick) scan?

No havnt tried in safe mode but was thinking about trying it so will have a go shortly.
I have done a full Malwarebytes scan with nothing detected also just done a Avast full scan with nothing to report.

waddler_8

Yes, aswMBR scanned with Avast definitions the places malware is likely to be too. There's no sign of infection at all so far.

JohnG

Figment wrote: »

You could also use Who Crashed to analyse the crash dump files that are normally created following a system freeze/crash.

This may give some clues of what caused the system to freeze.

" No valid crash dumps have been found on your computer "

waddler_8

If you can't run DDS, try OTL.

Download OTL from the link below and save it to your Desktop.

LINK

• Double click on OTL.exe to run it.
• Click the Quick Scan button. Do not change any other settings.
• When done, two Notepad files will open.
  • OTL.txt <-- Will be opened
  • Extras.txt <-- Will be minimized
• Post the contents of these 2 Notepad files in your next reply.
  (you may need to split the log over separate posts)