Internet based adware spam?

Natura

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So... My sister had her computer infected by "personal shield pro" fake security program, apparently through her email. Our antivirus was available to locate a path to the file and I booted the computer in safe-mode in order to remove the virus. That was a success. However it seems that before the virus was removed, it managed to infect the computer with another one that seems like an internet adware. What is does is that every time anyone on that computer tries to browse internet and opens ANY link, instead of opening that link it redirects your browser to various websites full of adds. This happens at least on Internet Explorer and Mozilla so its not browser based.

Obviously the question is: how do I get rid of this adware? I tried to virus scan the whole computer afterwards but nothing was found.
 
Im sorry for having posted before even reading your forum rules properly, but sometimes you just want to get answers as quickly as possible.

Anyways I'll try to scan with malwarebytes and see what happens.
 
Here is the full procedure you should do included an added step.

Please download and run TDSSkiller

When the program opens, click on the start scan button.

TDSSKiller will now scan your computer for the TDSS infection. When the scan has finished it will display a result screen stating whether or not the infection was found on your computer. If it was found it will display a screen similar to the one below.

infection-found.jpg


To remove the infection simply click on the Continue button and TDSSKiller will attempt to clean the infection.

When it has finished cleaning the infection you will see a report stating whether or not it was successful as shown below.

scan-completed.jpg


If the log says will be cured after reboot, please reboot the system by pressing the reboot now button.

After running there will be a log that will be located at the root of your c:\ drive labeled tdsskiller with a series of numbers after it. Please open the log and copy and paste it back here.

Please download Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware from here or here and save it to your desktop.
  • Double-click mbam-setup.exe and follow the prompts to install the program.
  • At the end, be sure a checkmark is placed next to
    • Update Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
    • and Launch Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
  • then click Finish.
  • If an update is found, it will download and install the latest version. Please keep updating until it says you have the latest version.
  • Once the program has loaded, select Perform quick scan, then click Scan.
  • When the scan is complete, click OK, then Show Results to view the results.
  • Be sure that everything is checked, and click Remove Selected.
  • A log will be saved automatically which you can access by clicking on the Logs tab within Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware

If for some reason Malwarebytes will not install or run please download and run Rkill.scr, Rkill.exe, or Rkill.com. If you are still having issues running rkill then try downloading these renamed versions of the same program.

EXPLORER.EXE
IEXPLORE.EXE
USERINIT.EXE
WINLOGON.EXE

But DO NOT reboot the system and then try installing or running Malwarebytes. If Rkill (which is a black box) appears and then disappears right away or you get a message saying rkill is infected, keep trying to run rkill until it over powers the infection and temporarily kills it. Once a log appears on the screen, you can try running malwarebytes or downloading other programs.



Download the HijackThis installer from here.
Run the installer and choose Install, indicating that you accept the licence agreement. The installer will place a shortcut on your desktop and launch HijackThis.

Vista and windows 7 users must right click on hijackthis and click on "run as". If the run as option doesn't appear then press and hold the shift key while right clicking on hijackthis to get the option to appear.


Click Do a system scan and save a logfile

Most of what HijackThis lists will be harmless or even essential, don't fix anything yet.

When the hijackthis log appears in a notepad file, click on the edit menu, click select all, then click on the edit menu again and click on copy. Come back to your reply and right click on your mouse and click on paste.

Post the logfile that HijackThis produces along with the Malwarebytes Anti-Malware log
 
Problem solved

I ran the TDSSkiller on that infected computer and it didn't find anything. Thankfully, for a reason unknown, when I was about to begin the scan our computer's own antivirus detected the problem and was able to destroy it on second attempt.

The virus was called: Backdoor.Win32.Pap ras.dey

Thank you guys for your help and effort.
 
I highly suggest to continue to follow my advice and download and run Malwarebytes and Hijackthis and post the logs to make sure you are clean.
 
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