Endless Paradigm

So the other day I was on my lappy when suddenly I get this very stange error stating that windows will shutdown in exactly one minute. For a second I didn't believe it, thinking it was popup. Then my laptop restarted.

Back from the restart I find I cannot run Firefox or Chrome from the quick launch area. Then I realise I cannot run them at all (but IE works just fine...). So I uninstall and attempt to reinstall chrome. The installer downloaded but failed to run (double click and nothing) which led me to download the whole thing off filehippo and to my amazement even that wouldn't install. The chrome_installer.exe and setup.exe run but when setup.exe gets to around 80,232k it just disappears.

Of course in between this I have done scans etc. Found a trojan on first scan, which was removed but still the problem persists. Also did some cleaning up with CCleaner but with no success.

Just installed firefox and I get the same error as the one when the problem started:

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I get that error even when I go to that location and double click firefox.exe

WTH?!

Any ideas?

What did you scan with??? Have you tried Malwarebytes Anti Malware, its pretty much the best thing available.


Can't say ive seen that before, it is rather strange, but the only thing i can imagine would do it is a virus, some try to stop you finding out information about them by hijacking browsers or search attempts

AVG :P I know....

Thanks for the the anti malware Roberth (I think I remember having it before...). It seems its found 2 infected objects so far...Hopefully it should fix the problem :)

Rebooting, be right back.

AVG is fudgeing weak.

Anyway, if you rename Firefox to "iexplore.exe" and run it, does it work?

Funnily enough it sounds like a virus I cleaned of someones computer a couple of weeks ago only not as bad.

If you can, go into AVGs logs and make a note of what virus it was, look it up and make sure it's been cleaned because it doesn't sound like AVG did it's job properly.

Remember, when you get rid of a virus manually, you know you've got rid of it.

try this
might still work

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download...s/combofix

Sensei, yeh it was the same error.

Everything seems fine now. I couldn't install chrome though, with the filehippo download or from the chrome website so I ended up just extracting the filehippo download and somewhat installing it manually.

And hooray Chrome :D

Oh by the way Chrome > Any Browser

What ya gonna say to that biatches! :)

I got to say that i disagree, but that's not for this thread, nice to here that its sorted


Whilst i agree with Sensei that the best way to clean a virus is by hand, but if you don't know what your dealing with and can't easily research it, as in this case, MBAM is the lord in terms of antivirus programs, alongside Combofix and Smitfraud fix

Avira Anti Virus+Comodo firewall+Mbam =

roberth Wrote: [ -> ]Whilst i agree with Sensei that the best way to clean a virus is by hand, but if you don't know what your dealing with and can't easily research it, as in this case, MBAM is the lord in terms of antivirus programs, alongside Combofix and Smitfraud fix

Agreed. And as far as a legal way to protect yourself is concerned - use Avast as it has shields and scans data as it enters your machine. AVG Free is, at best, an on-demand scanner which kinda voids the point of "protecting" yourself.. and it's Pro version is worse than a number of premium AVs available. There is no reason to use it.

lol@microsoft :)