I'm in the process of cleaning a neighbor's PC for her and have come across a problem. I washed out a load of spyware and had to go through a fair bit of registry editing to get rid of the Lo Thuong/Desktop Search/Edmond Trojan(<-- Cleaned it using instructions found at that link). So far so good. The registry appears clean, and Symantec AV, AdAware, and Spybot S&D all come up clean. Problem is, there's still *loads* of Internet Explorer windows randomly popping up randomly (most of them from: http://banners.searchingbooth.com/advertpro/, if that helps at all). She's running Windows XP and browsing with Firefox, with nothing big running in the background. Any help you can give would be appreciated.
Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 3:26:57 PM, on 4/27/2005
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180)
Running processes:
C:\WINNT\System32\smss[Caution: ExecutableFile]
C:\WINNT\system32\winlogon[Caution: ExecutableFile]
C:\WINNT\system32\services[Caution: ExecutableFile]
C:\WINNT\system32\lsass[Caution: ExecutableFile]
C:\WINNT\system32\svchost[Caution: ExecutableFile]
C:\WINNT\System32\svchost[Caution: ExecutableFile]
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccSetMgr[Caution: ExecutableFile]
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccEvtMgr[Caution: ExecutableFile]
C:\WINNT\Explorer[Caution: ExecutableFile]
C:\WINNT\system32\LEXBCES[Caution: ExecutableFile]
C:\WINNT\system32\LEXPPS[Caution: ExecutableFile]
C:\WINNT\system32\spoolsv[Caution: ExecutableFile]
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccApp[Caution: ExecutableFile]
C:\PROGRA~1\SYMANT~1\VPTray[Caution: ExecutableFile]
C:\WINNT\IEXPLOR[Caution: ExecutableFile]
C:\WINNT\WinTask[Caution: ExecutableFile]
C:\WINNT\system\dnaqfrvbcr[Caution: ExecutableFile]
C:\Program Files\Symantec AntiVirus\DefWatch[Caution: ExecutableFile]
C:\WINNT\System32\nvsvc32[Caution: ExecutableFile]
C:\WINNT\System32\svchost[Caution: ExecutableFile]
C:\Program Files\Symantec AntiVirus\Rtvscan[Caution: ExecutableFile]
C:\WINNT\wanmpsvc[Caution: ExecutableFile]
C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Ad-Aware SE Personal\Ad-Aware[Caution: ExecutableFile]
C:\Program Files\Symantec AntiVirus\VPC32[Caution: ExecutableFile]
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox[Caution: ExecutableFile]
C:\Documents and Settings\J J\Desktop\HijackThis[Caution: ExecutableFile]
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer,(Default) = www.google.com
R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://www.yahoo.com/
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Page_URL = http://www.google.com
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Bar = about:blank
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://www.gateway.net
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Window Title = Microsoft Internet Explorer
R3 - Default URLSearchHook is missing
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {ED103D9F-3070-4580-AB1E-E5C179C1AE41} - (no file)
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [ccApp] "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccApp[Caution: ExecutableFile]"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [vptray] C:\PROGRA~1\SYMANT~1\VPTray[Caution: ExecutableFile]
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AtxBrw] C:\WINNT\IEXPLOR[Caution: ExecutableFile]
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [C] C:\WINNT\WinTask[Caution: ExecutableFile]
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [PopMark] C:\WINNT\WinTask[Caution: ExecutableFile]
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [checkrun] C:\winnt\system32\elitevci32[Caution: ExecutableFile]
O4 - HKLM\..\RunServices: [sYSTEM] lsas[Caution: ExecutableFile]
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Microsoft Works Update Detection] C:\Program Files\Microsoft Works\WkDetect[Caution: ExecutableFile]
O9 - Extra button: Real.com - {CD67F990-D8E9-11d2-98FE-00C0F0318AFE} - C:\WINNT\System32\Shdocvw.dll
O9 - Extra button: MoneySide - {E023F504-0C5A-4750-A1E7-A9046DEA8A21} - C:\Program Files\Microsoft Money\System\mnyviewer.dll
O9 - Extra button: Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs[Caution: ExecutableFile]
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Windows Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs[Caution: ExecutableFile]
O12 - Plugin for .spop: C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\Plugins\NPDocBox.dll
O14 - IERESET.INF: START_PAGE_URL=http://www.google.com
O16 - DPF: Yahoo! Literati - http://download.games.yahoo.com/games/clients/y/tt1_x.cab
O16 - DPF: Yahoo! Spades - http://download.games.yahoo.com/games/clients/y/st2_x.cab
O16 - DPF: {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608500} (Microsoft VM) - http://www.wildtangent.com/install/jvm/msjavx86_3805[Caution: ExecutableFile]
O16 - DPF: {6414512B-B978-451D-A0D8-FCFDF33E833C} (WUWebControl Class) - http://v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/v5consumer/V5Controls/en/x86/client/wuweb_site.cab?1110773444077
O16 - DPF: {739E8D90-2F4C-43AD-A1B8-66C356FCEA35} (RunExeActiveX.RunExe) - hcp://system/RunExeActiveX.CAB
O16 - DPF: {74D05D43-3236-11D4-BDCD-00C04F9A3B61} (HouseCall Control) - http://a840.g.akamai.net/7/840/537/2004061001/housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/xscan53.cab
O16 - DPF: {99CDFD87-F97A-42E1-9C13-D18220D90AD1} (StartFirstControl.CheckFirst) - hcp://system/StartFirstControl.CAB
O16 - DPF: {AB29A544-D6B4-4E36-A1F8-D3E34FC7B00A} - http://install.wildtangent.com/bgn/partners/wildgames/polarbowler/install.cab
O16 - DPF: {B8BE5E93-A60C-4D26-A2DC-220313175592} (ZoneIntro Class) - http://zone.msn.com/binFramework/v10/ZIntro.cab34246.cab
O16 - DPF: {DF780F87-FF2B-4DF8-92D0-73DB16A1543A} (PopCapLoader Object) - http://zone.msn.com/bingame/dim2/default/popcaploader_v6.cab
O20 - Winlogon Notify: NavLogon - C:\WINNT\system32\NavLogon.dll
O23 - Service: Symantec Event Manager (ccEvtMgr) - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccEvtMgr[Caution: ExecutableFile]
O23 - Service: Symantec Password Validation (ccPwdSvc) - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccPwdSvc[Caution: ExecutableFile]
O23 - Service: Symantec Settings Manager (ccSetMgr) - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccSetMgr[Caution: ExecutableFile]
O23 - Service: Symantec AntiVirus Definition Watcher (DefWatch) - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Symantec AntiVirus\DefWatch[Caution: ExecutableFile]
O23 - Service: IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service (ImapiService) - Roxio Inc. - C:\WINNT\System32\ImapiRox[Caution: ExecutableFile]
O23 - Service: LexBce Server (LexBceS) - Lexmark International, Inc. - C:\WINNT\system32\LEXBCES[Caution: ExecutableFile]
O23 - Service: NVIDIA Driver Helper Service (NVSvc) - NVIDIA Corporation - C:\WINNT\System32\nvsvc32[Caution: ExecutableFile]
O23 - Service: PictureTaker - Unknown owner - c:\fixit\pt\PCTKRNT.SYS (file missing)
O23 - Service: SAVRoam (SavRoam) - symantec - C:\Program Files\Symantec AntiVirus\SavRoam[Caution: ExecutableFile]
O23 - Service: Symantec Network Drivers Service (SNDSrvc) - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\SNDSrvc[Caution: ExecutableFile]
O23 - Service: Symantec AntiVirus - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Symantec AntiVirus\Rtvscan[Caution: ExecutableFile]
O23 - Service: WAN Miniport (ATW) Service (WANMiniportService) - America Online, Inc. - C:\WINNT\wanmpsvc[Caution: ExecutableFile]