So my dad was working on our XP computer yesterday, while running a virus scan, and suddenly it found something. Around this time, something popped up on Zone Alarm saying "mavvsnet.tmp is trying to access the internet". Since this sounded like a virus or trojan, I obviously said no, and decided to completely kill that computer's internet access through my router. We decided to reboot shortly thereafter, as the computer froze, and explorer.exe would crash every thirty seconds. So I started up and went into safe mode, where I ran Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, while still dealing with the explorer.exe problem (this time, it would try to restart every thirty seconds, popping up the "This is safe mode..." message consistently). After the MBAM scan finished, I found that there was something called "trojan.vundo.h", which I obviously removed. I restarted into safe mode again, and ran MBAM again, with a full scan. The explorer.exe problem had ceased, and the scan found a couple of more registry problems, but it removed those. I thought it was clear, but, when I restarted into normal windows, all of my operating system settings had been completely reset, as if I had just installed the OS again. There were no restore points before December 12, the picture was the default picture, the time was showing, the theme was blue, and My Documents and My Computer were not displayed on the desktop. However, all my documents appeared fine, and it looked as if nothing had been ruined but the operating system. Naturally, I am still a bit wary about the safety of my computer. So, two questions. What else should I run to ensure it is again safe to use the computer for important stuff like internet monetary transactions and Newegg purchases? What caused only the OS to appear messed up? All help is appreciated.
Install Avira Antivirus, Spybot S&D, and Spyware Terminator. They work great, especially spybot. Ad Aware would also be a good one to install.
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Are you absolutely sure "mavvsnet.tmp" is what it said? Always google a service before disabling it via firewall. You could have disabled a vital Windows service and that caused you OS not to run properly. It could be a wga related service which is there to validate your Windows. To be completely sure there nothing of the virus still left is a complete reinstall of everything. I always backup my OS install+installed software. That way I can roll back everything to the date of a clean install.
I googled "mavvsnet.tmp" and it appeared to be a trojan, based on multiple responses there.
How does that work? Do you back it up on another partition so you can copy it over, or on an external HDD?
How does that work? Do you back it up on another partition so you can copy it over, or on an external HDD?
reformat
VundoFix.
Post if you need instructions on how to use it.
Quickly scanned their forums and someone with "trojan.vundo.h" was directed to use ComboFix.
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/combofi … e-combofix
Post if you need instructions on how to use it.
Quickly scanned their forums and someone with "trojan.vundo.h" was directed to use ComboFix.
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/combofi … e-combofix
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If the help you find here in not working go here : www.techguy.org
you won't get things like 'reformat' there
free help in their forums
helped me with a nasty vundo-variant trojan
great site
you won't get things like 'reformat' there
free help in their forums
helped me with a nasty vundo-variant trojan
great site
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Put your Trojan on and you won't get any Viruses.
That said, scan with everything above.
That said, scan with everything above.
Lol, I was waiting for that joke. And thanks to everyone. I'll do this all tomorrow, and dole out karma accordingly. Safely assuming that clean scans in the ones above would indicate safety, right?
And is it agreed the corruption of the OS settings was a result of the file controlling them being deleted and restored to defaults?
And is it agreed the corruption of the OS settings was a result of the file controlling them being deleted and restored to defaults?
Use Avast. Avast > *
Just reformat and keep backups of a clean install, like sup said