re: Hijack this scan result
Saturday, January 8, 2005 at 8:01 pm
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Posted by Allan
(22 messages posted)
Hi Carol,
Sorry for the confusion.
I've now been focusing on my own machine as because I had emailed the HJT log from
the problem machine to myself I was worried that my machine had become infected with
the malicious code. I got a fright with your earlier post which indicated the HJT
log itself could cause a malicious infection (correct me if I'm wrong). So I ran
the in-depth RAV scan etc on my machine and it found a number of things that my AV
scanner (Trend Micro) didn't pick up. Including the HJT log in a temporary internet
folder.
I've deleted or quarantined any files it picked up. I managed to get the quarantine
working by running it in Safe Mode.
Getting back to the problem machine; I intend, as you advised, to reformat the drive
and reinstall Windows ME.
I understand this will kill everything.
However I've been backing up important personal documents, emails etc to CD, I had
to put them in a Zip file to preserve the long file names.
I've then placed the backup CD in a CD drive in my own personal machine and run BitDefender
Online Scan over it. It came up clean.
Do you think this is satisfactory?
Once I've got the problem machine up and running after reformatting etc. and copied
the backup files back accross, I'll run the anti-trojan scan you suggested.
Is it right therefore to assume that I don't need to run a HJT log on the problem
machine now?
Maybe I should do one on my personal machine to be sure it's OK?
I really don't know what I should be looking for in the log?
By opening the HJT log, do I run the risk of being reinfected with malicious code?
I really appreciate your help on this.
Allan
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