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imBLIND
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States2626 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-24 20:00:11
January 24 2010 19:39 GMT
#1
I have an Alureon trojan that keeps creating a registry key that rewrites my DNS servers and hijacks my processes so that every time i input new dns servers, it just hijacks those new ones instead.

From Hijackthis:

O17 - HKLM\System\CCS\Services\Tcpip\..\{843E7ADF-E671-4CE3-B51A-7D90A04EDE28}: NameServer = 68.238.64.12,68.238.96.12

I found the registry key and deleted it, but in doing so i had to input my dns servers again, which created the the registry key above again.

What really bugs me is that all these parameters are all legit parameters and recreate themselves because they're pretty important to the internet...there's something manipulating these keys or renaming them but i can't find it.

also tried setting it to '0', but then a .sys file tries to fix it(avira keeps catching it) and says it's from C:System Volume Information. Another one from a mysterious C file contains an exploit which i think is the executable or the updater. Neither of them stops trying, even if i delete it.

Hijack this doesn't work because it has the same effect as manually deleting. Virus scan has worked to some degree, but the DNS thing is still happening. Avira hasn't found the trojan. CCCleaner had no effect. I have no idea how to use combofix.

Please help i have no idea what else i can do..

*
im deaf
R1CH
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Netherlands10342 Posts
January 24 2010 19:43 GMT
#2
Are you able to get to online scanners such as http://www.eset.com/onlinescan/ and http://quickscan.bitdefender.com/ ?
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imBLIND
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States2626 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-24 20:13:43
January 24 2010 19:46 GMT
#3
yes ima post them in a bit h/o

edit:
Bitdefender didn't find anything and esat is taking a lot longer

Eset is still going, but it found an Olmarik.SV trojan. I kinda doubt this one rewrites rewrites DNS servers though...

Oh i forgot to mention: whenever i input my DNS servers and click okay, a msg pops up and says there's another adapter with the same IP Address as mine, and i click "no i don't want to change it," and then the comp works for about 3 seconds and then the TCP/IP screen disappears. Whatever i have, it recognizes that process after i click something and recreates the registry key.

The msg that says theres another comp w/ the same IP address doesn't surprise me cause i sometimes unplug/replug my adapter into a new USB port (i have a static IP address too), but that msg itself is new which makes me suspicious of it..
im deaf
Manit0u
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
Poland17852 Posts
January 24 2010 19:58 GMT
#4
Some things you could try out:

1. Turn off system restore (and keep it that way for the rest of your life).
2. Perform a full system scan with Avira (once I had a really nasty trojan, looking over internet I saw a couple of super-complicated solutions that involved downloading various stuff, restarting in safe mode, launching them in correct order, changing the registry and so on... A simple full scan solved the problem for me without all this bullshit).
Time is precious. Waste it wisely.
Severedevil
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States4839 Posts
January 24 2010 19:58 GMT
#5
Either think unsexy thoughts, or just finish. And next time buy lubricated Trojans.
My strategy is to fork people.
ghermination
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States2851 Posts
January 24 2010 19:59 GMT
#6
Reformat, after moving all your games and whatnot onto a seperate partition so you don't lose them.
U Gotta Skate.
imBLIND
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States2626 Posts
January 24 2010 20:05 GMT
#7
@manit0u : i just did a full system scan and the only trojans it found were from ADVLoader a while back. But why do i need to turn off system restore? i use it as a last ditch effort to fix my computer and sometimes it works...it didn't this time.

@ghermination: i dun have the XP CD, none of my friends have the CD, and i am too poor to go ask the computer guy to use his CD.
im deaf
Shield
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Bulgaria4824 Posts
January 24 2010 20:38 GMT
#8
On January 25 2010 05:05 imBLIND wrote:
@ghermination: i dun have the XP CD, none of my friends have the CD, and i am too poor to go ask the computer guy to use his CD.

Although it's not legal, I'd say one word: torrents.
BlissX1
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States328 Posts
January 24 2010 20:39 GMT
#9
get some purell if it is a virus and pour it on your hardrive. if its a trojan than get a girl
XtremeOneZ 4 Life Bliss[x.1]
Patriot.dlk
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
Sweden5462 Posts
January 24 2010 20:53 GMT
#10
Malwarebytes and Spybot search and destroy, download those update them and run full scans.

Something keeps writing to your registry? hrmm use http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx to find out all about your running processes

imBLIND
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States2626 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-24 21:15:53
January 24 2010 21:10 GMT
#11
@slimshady: I've been torrenting for a few years now, and i can say for a fact that torrenting the actual windows 7 or XP is a total waste of time without a really good keygen. Not gonan waste my time dling that and spend a week looking for a keygen that works

@patriot: i don't care about the malware cause thats ez to delete. I'm tryin to get rid of the trojan changin my dns and sendin me the malware. process explorer didnt have any suspicious looking .dlls

I was browsing through my registry and found the "real" Tcpip file. The key i posted above is being remade by the trojan..
im deaf
Athos
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States2484 Posts
January 24 2010 21:15 GMT
#12
I thought this was going to be about condoms.
ghermination
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States2851 Posts
January 24 2010 21:18 GMT
#13
On January 25 2010 06:15 Athos wrote:
I thought this was going to be about condoms.

Actually me too... i thought he had tried to cram himself into a small condom and gotten stuck or something.
U Gotta Skate.
canucks12
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada812 Posts
January 24 2010 21:18 GMT
#14
Try Activescan. It got rid of a trojan that Norton couldn't

It requires a subscription to get it to remove everything, but any malicious or dangerous viruses/spyware will be removed for free.
imBLIND
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States2626 Posts
January 24 2010 21:47 GMT
#15
didnt work..
im deaf
yesplz
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States295 Posts
January 25 2010 00:08 GMT
#16
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/forum103.html
Ask here they will be able to help you better
BlissX1
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States328 Posts
January 25 2010 07:46 GMT
#17
Purell is the best way to go
XtremeOneZ 4 Life Bliss[x.1]
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