WinXP Defender

[Intexity]

Thanks in advance for any and all help
Got a laptop from a friend who happened to be hit with the winxp defender virus. it has diabled any and all antivirus antispyware etc... in safe mode did an uninstall reinstall for spybot with no avail. can't find the 2.5 to 3.5 adapter to simply connect to my computer to use my antivirus. cant find a decent bootable antivirus. any suggestions
Thanks again

 

[Pantlegz]

avast has a boot time scanner if you're able to install it.

 

[Intexity]

will give it a try in the meantime any other ideas??

 

[TheStu]

How old is the laptop? If it is 2-3 years old or newer then it almost certainly has a SATA hard drive that can be directly connected to your system.

 

[mechBgon]

Download the HijackThis executable file from this page, rename the executable file to a random name, and run it on that system while you're in Safe Mode. Then post the logfile text here for help determining what to nuke.

 

[bruceb]

HiJack this is a good idea. But first, try MalwareBytes from here

http://download.cnet.com/Malwa...572&subj=dl&tag=button

It is a very good malware remover and may easily get rid of that poblem.
The link below tells how to deal with this pest (in safe mode)

http://www.bleepingcomputer.co...l/advanced-xp-defender

Associated Advanced XP Defender Files:

c:\Program Files\AXPDefender
c:\Program Files\AXPDefender\AXPDefender.exe
c:\Program Files\AXPDefender\AXPDefender.exe.local
c:\Program Files\AXPDefender\AXPDefenderSkin.dll
c:\Program Files\AXPDefender\database.dat
c:\Program Files\AXPDefender\license.txt
c:\Program Files\AXPDefender\MFC71.dll
c:\Program Files\AXPDefender\MFC71ENU.DLL
c:\Program Files\AXPDefender\msvcp71.dll
c:\Program Files\AXPDefender\msvcr71.dll
c:\Program Files\AXPDefender\Uninstall.exe
c:\Documents and Settings\forensics\Application Data\AXPDefender
c:\Documents and Settings\forensics\Application Data\AXPDefender\AXPDefender
c:\Documents and Settings\forensics\Application Data\AXPDefender\AXPDefender\Quarantine
c:\Documents and Settings\forensics\Application Data\AXPDefender\AXPDefender\Quarantine\Autorun
c:\Documents and Settings\forensics\Application Data\AXPDefender\AXPDefender\Quarantine\Autorun\HKCU
c:\Documents and Settings\forensics\Application Data\AXPDefender\AXPDefender\Quarantine\Autorun\HKCU\RunOnce
c:\Documents and Settings\forensics\Application Data\AXPDefender\AXPDefender\Quarantine\Autorun\HKLM
c:\Documents and Settings\forensics\Application Data\AXPDefender\AXPDefender\Quarantine\Autorun\HKLM\RunOnce
c:\Documents and Settings\forensics\Application Data\AXPDefender\AXPDefender\Quarantine\Autorun\StartMenuAllUsers
c:\Documents and Settings\forensics\Application Data\AXPDefender\AXPDefender\Quarantine\Autorun\StartMenuCurrentUser
c:\Documents and Settings\forensics\Application Data\AXPDefender\AXPDefender\Quarantine\BrowserObjects
c:\Documents and Settings\forensics\Application Data\AXPDefender\AXPDefender\Quarantine\Packages
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\AXPDefender.lnk
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Advanced XP Defender
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Advanced XP Defender.lnk
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Advanced XP Defender\Advanced XP Defender.lnk
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Advanced XP Defender\How to register.lnk
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Advanced XP Defender\License Agreement.lnk
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Advanced XP Defender\Register.lnk
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Advanced XP Defender\Uninstall.lnk
c:\Documents and Settings\forensics\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\AXPDefender.lnk



Associated Advanced XP Defender Windows Registry Information:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\AXPDefender
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\AXPDefender\AXPDefender
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\AXPDefender\AXPDefender\Settings
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\AXPDefender
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "AXPDefender"

 

[elconejito]

if you have A/V on another machine, many of them will let you create a bootable Rescue disk that has a scanner on it. That might help

 

[Intexity]

So using Avast was able to delete the virus (hopefully) had 11 infected files. Some of which were in windows folders, but the computer is up and running and am installing avg. will be adding zone labs firewall (i think i had these two programs installed at one time but there is no trace of them. hmmm...) anyways thank god. this computer is taking up way too much of my time
Appreciate any and all input. It was driving me nuts I even tried the Bart PE disc to no avail. So thanks to all hopefully i can get this delivered in the next hour.

 

[Intexity]

Originally posted by: TheStu
How old is the laptop? If it is 2-3 years old or newer then it almost certainly has a SATA hard drive that can be directly connected to your system.

in the original post i did mention it being a 2.5 hdd. Thanks for your time though

 

[pcgeek11]

Originally posted by: Intexity

Originally posted by: TheStu
How old is the laptop? If it is 2-3 years old or newer then it almost certainly has a SATA hard drive that can be directly connected to your system.

in the original post i did mention it being a 2.5 hdd. Thanks for your time though

SATA is SATA. It doesn't matter if it is 2.5 inch or 3.5 inch the SATA connectors are the same.

PATA the 2.5 inch drive is 44 pins where the PATA 3.5 inch drive has 40 pins.

pcgeek11

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: pcgeek11

Originally posted by: Intexity

Originally posted by: TheStu
How old is the laptop? If it is 2-3 years old or newer then it almost certainly has a SATA hard drive that can be directly connected to your system.

in the original post i did mention it being a 2.5 hdd. Thanks for your time though

SATA is SATA. It doesn't matter if it is 2.5 inch or 3.5 inch the SATA connectors are the same.

PATA the 2.5 inch drive is 44 pins where the PATA 3.5 inch drive has 40 pins.

pcgeek11

What he ^ said.

OP, glad you got your problem sorted.

 

[Intexity]

ok my bad it was an ide sorry was pretty stressed out when this was going on. ended up taking about 12 hours all together over the weekend which killed my weekend. was charging but didn't expect it to be so long. figured if i had my 2.5 to 3.5 IDE adapter all would take about 3 hours. since i didn't ended up having to finagle control over the laptop to be able to install anything. even after i regained control with avast it took a 5 hour scan with avg and then 3 scans with spybot s&d at about an hour each and a ccleaner which took a half hour. she only had 580 mb left on a 40 gig hard drive. it was not fun. again i apologize for my blunder.
edit> oh pata????? oh hell if you look at my latest post you will see where i referenced my lack of knowledge with hard drives. always thought they were ide and sata