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Trojan horse?
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One last check
Download aswMBR and save it to your Desktop.
http://public.avast.com/~gmerek/aswMBR.exe- Right click aswMBR.exe & choose "Run as Administrator" to run it.
- Click YES to the prompt to download Avast virus definitions
- When the virus definitions have downloaded, click the Scan button.
- Wait till the scan reports "Scan finished successfully"
- Click Save log & save the log to your desktop.
- Click OK
- Two files will be created, aswMBR.txt & a file named MBR.dat
- Click EXIT.
- Copy & Paste the contents of aswMBR.txt into your next reply.
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Thanks for your help and patience

aswMBR version 0.9.9.1665 Copyright(c) 2011 AVAST Software
Run date: 2012-09-10 23:04:32
23:04:32.978 OS Version: Windows x64 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1
23:04:32.978 Number of processors: 4 586 0x2505
23:04:32.979 ComputerName: ******** UserName: *****
23:04:33.674 Initialize success
23:05:50.832 AVAST engine defs: 12091001
23:05:57.749 Disk 0 (boot) \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 -> \Device\Ide\IAAStorageDevice-1
23:05:57.753 Disk 0 Vendor: SAMSUNG_ 2AJ1 Size: 610480MB BusType: 3
23:05:57.768 Disk 0 MBR read successfully
23:05:57.772 Disk 0 MBR scan
23:05:57.780 Disk 0 unknown MBR code
23:05:57.786 Disk 0 Partition 1 00 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE NTFS 20480 MB offset 2048
23:05:57.805 Disk 0 Partition 2 80 (A) 07 HPFS/NTFS NTFS 100 MB offset 41945088
23:05:57.822 Disk 0 Partition 3 00 07 HPFS/NTFS NTFS 236544 MB offset 42149888
23:05:57.831 Disk 0 Partition - 00 0F Extended LBA 353354 MB offset 526592000
23:05:57.869 Disk 0 Partition 4 00 07 HPFS/NTFS NTFS 353353 MB offset 526594048
23:05:57.914 Disk 0 scanning C:\windows\system32\drivers
23:06:10.399 Service scanning
23:06:37.834 Modules scanning
23:06:38.181 Disk 0 trace - called modules:
23:06:38.220 ntoskrnl.exe CLASSPNP.SYS disk.sys iaStor.sys hal.dll
23:06:38.229 1 nt!IofCallDriver -> \Device\Harddisk0\DR0[0xfffffa80045f8060]
23:06:38.236 3 CLASSPNP.SYS[fffff88001b6b43f] -> nt!IofCallDriver -> \Device\Ide\IAAStorageDevice-1[0xfffffa800439c050]
23:06:39.439 AVAST engine scan C:\windows
23:06:42.413 AVAST engine scan C:\windows\system32
23:09:05.526 AVAST engine scan C:\windows\system32\drivers
23:09:17.095 AVAST engine scan C:\Users\*****
23:10:09.232 Disk 0 MBR has been saved successfully to "C:\Users\*****\Desktop\MBR.dat"
23:10:09.239 The log file has been saved successfully to "C:\Users\*****\Desktop\aswMBR.txt"Always consider your actions wisely, think of others, do you really?
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No problem.
I was a bit suspicious with you being unable to scan the file at VirusTotal, then being unable to download DDS.
Submit the file here as a false positive for analysis by AVG
http://samplesubmit.avg.com/gb-en/false-detection0 -
No problem.
I was a bit suspicious with you being unable to scan the file at VirusTotal, then being unable to download DDS.
Submit the file here as a false positive for analysis by AVG
http://samplesubmit.avg.com/gb-en/false-detection
:beer: Great thanks for your help with this waddler_8, you're a star.
ETA, submitted the file to AVG.Always consider your actions wisely, think of others, do you really?
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