|SFH| Sent From Hell :: Community Forums: Unknown Publisher

Active Topics

Memberlist

Invert Colours

Help

Hardware / Software Bits & Bobs
\|SFH\| Sent From Hell :: Community Forums : Hardware / Software Bits & Bobs

Topic: Unknown Publisher

Author

Message

<< Prev Topic | Next Topic >>

Mash-Tin_UK
Clan Member

Joined: 21 September 2005
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 1936

Posted: 12 April 2010 at 6:33pm \| IP Logged

Okay so i tried this link my mate sent us, it was to do with Xbox Microsoft points, i shudda known better nothing from Microsoft is free, But yer, numpty i am, decided to download a generator, then realised i shouldnt have.

Now everytime on start up, this keeps popping up...

And its starting to piss me off, By the looks of it iv downloaded some Malware or something? The annoying thing is, I can see half of its path up to \Application Data..

Is there anything i can do to stop it

Darthbaz
Site Admin

GW2 Leader

Joined: 17 January 2007
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 2915

Posted: 12 April 2010 at 6:51pm \| IP Logged

Is this any help ? clicky

__________________

Mash-Tin_UK
Clan Member

Joined: 21 September 2005
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 1936

Posted: 14 April 2010 at 6:19pm \| IP Logged

Right had a look at that, il save that option till last, that seems all to complicated! basically i want to know how to find the rest of the path from Jay\Application Data\.. Onwards so i can see actually where its booting from, but it never did it before i downloaded sh*tty generator so thats saying to me iv made abit of a cock up downloading something like that. Any other ideas?

Bartaggio
Senior Community Member

Guild Member

Joined: 16 Febuary 2007
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 391

Posted: 14 April 2010 at 8:28pm \| IP Logged

You could like do a search for svchost.exe in Application Data. That would probably find it

Harv
Honourary Member

TF2 GOD

Joined: 24 January 2003
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 2716

Posted: 14 April 2010 at 11:54pm \| IP Logged

I 100% agree with Darth on this one.

The link he provided you seems to be the standard process for getting rid of the virus you seem to have installed on your machine.

I know you dismissed it as being complicated and want other ideas, but yes - viruses are often complicated and require complicated measures to get rid of them. If it were easy to get rid of viruses then the kids wouldn't bother making them, and anti-virus companies wouldn't make so much money making software to counter-act the effects.

To be honest though - there ARE other options that i could go through with you to get rid of this, but trust me - they may be FAR more complicated than what that link suggests above. One would be to download and install a virus checker (AVG is good) - but my suspision is that it may not be possible to complete this due to the virus preventing you from doing so.

My suggestion is - print out the page that Darth has linked for you and follow it word for word. If there is anything that doesn't go to plan or is not what you expect, come back to me and I will help you as much as i can.

Edited by Harv on 15 April 2010 at 12:06am

yuriclaes
Clan Member

Beer Swigger

Joined: 30 August 2008
Location: Belgium
Posts: 733

Posted: 15 April 2010 at 11:56am \| IP Logged

U could always format ur PC and reinstall everything, that isnt complicated at all :p

__________________

Mash-Tin_UK
Clan Member

Joined: 21 September 2005
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 1936

Posted: 15 April 2010 at 5:41pm \| IP Logged

Would doin a system restore do anything? Im not sure if its a virus, but im starting to think it is, luckily it asks to run it everytime on start up so i just cancel it

Cock with a soc
Honourary Member

Joined: 05 December 2004
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 957

Posted: 15 April 2010 at 9:20pm \| IP Logged

Come on Mash its only 8 steps its not exactly an essay on Volcanoes dont do a restore it probably wont fix it.

Search for other posts by Cock with a soc

woodster
Clan Member

Guild Officer

Joined: 25 January 2009
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 334

Posted: 15 April 2010 at 11:14pm \| IP Logged

open ur start menu ,use the "run " function ,type "msconfig" then click startup tab . c if its listed there and unclick ,it will also show location . it might not even b a virus i got a couple programs that need to re run,but not usually on startup mind . if once unclicked it dosnt restart i wouldnt worry too much about it ,but if it re appears chances r u have got a virus :P

__________________

woodster
Clan Member

Guild Officer

Joined: 25 January 2009
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 334

Posted: 15 April 2010 at 11:16pm \| IP Logged

hmm and just lookin at the path ,have u updated Java ? looks a java program ???

__________________

woodster
Clan Member

Guild Officer

Joined: 25 January 2009
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 334

Posted: 15 April 2010 at 11:21pm \| IP Logged

and a quick browse found this bit of info

The Svchost.exe file is located in the %SystemRoot%\System32 folder. At startup, Svchost.exe checks the services part of the registry to construct a list of services that it must load. Multiple instances of Svchost.exe can run at the same time. Each Svchost.exe session can contain a grouping of services. Therefore, separate services can run, depending on how and where Svchost.exe is started. This grouping of services allows for better control and easier debugging.

__________________

Mash-Tin_UK
Clan Member

Joined: 21 September 2005
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 1936

Posted: 17 April 2010 at 6:58pm \| IP Logged

Cock with a soc wrote:

Come on Mash its only 8 steps its not exactly an essay on Volcanoes dont do a restore it probably wont fix it.

I know that, i dnt have time to sit at the comp and do that atm hence why i wanted it as a last resort

Will look into it 2moro when i have a day off! cheers lads

Edited by Mash-Tin_UK on 17 April 2010 at 6:59pm

Mash-Tin_UK
Clan Member

Joined: 21 September 2005
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 1936

Posted: 18 April 2010 at 1:56pm \| IP Logged

Well i ran Threat Expert and thats found nothing, and i ran the programme on start up to see what it does, Doesnt look like any unusual tasks in the process window!

Edited by Mash-Tin_UK on 18 April 2010 at 2:39pm

woodster
Clan Member

Guild Officer

Joined: 25 January 2009
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 334

Posted: 18 April 2010 at 3:27pm \| IP Logged

u runnin a 32 or 64bit system ?

__________________

Mash-Tin_UK
Clan Member

Joined: 21 September 2005
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 1936

Posted: 18 April 2010 at 5:07pm \| IP Logged

32bit afaik

Darthbaz
Site Admin

GW2 Leader

Joined: 17 January 2007
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 2915

Posted: 18 April 2010 at 5:31pm \| IP Logged

Have you tried running HijackThis? see if that throws up anything

__________________

Nhumrod
Site Admin

Clan Leader & GM

Joined: 09 September 2002
Location: Scotland
Posts: 13897

Posted: 03 May 2010 at 1:23am \| IP Logged

svchost.exe generally relates to system processes initiated by Windows and you can drill down to their file handles using process explorer, shich should indicate if theyre dodgy or not (though the fact theyre unsigned sounds v dodgy to me):

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/processexplorer.html

For future, onjly ever run anything dodgy like keygens etc, in a Sandbox:

http://www.sandboxie.com/

__________________
There is no IRL, there's just AFK.

Mash-Tin_UK
Clan Member

Joined: 21 September 2005
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 1936

Posted: 03 May 2010 at 10:26am \| IP Logged

Cheers D and everyone else!

This is the path that its at, does it look dodgy?

C:\Documents and Settings\Jay\Application Data\Microsoft\svchost.exe

Oh and on the process APP it doesnt show as a Generic Host Process for Win32 Services... Its just a Blank line

Edited by Mash-Tin_UK on 03 May 2010 at 10:27am

Nhumrod
Site Admin

Clan Leader & GM

Joined: 09 September 2002
Location: Scotland
Posts: 13897

Posted: 03 May 2010 at 9:45pm \| IP Logged

Yes - v dodgy. Theres only ine svchost.exe on your machin that is safe and its under C:\WINDOWS\system32

__________________
There is no IRL, there's just AFK.

Lafey
Guest
Guest

Now Pirate.Tris

Joined: 29 December 2007
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 0

Posted: 08 May 2010 at 5:55am \| IP Logged

mashy, you're a nub!
love youuuuuu!

Page of 2

Printable version

You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot create polls in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum

This page was generated in 1.1108 seconds.