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Well, that depends on how busy the HJT team is.There are many people who need help as well. You've got to consider that it takes some time to study HijackThis log, too. Don't worry, you will get a reply to your post as soon as possible, and if you don't get it in five days, then post a link to the tread with your HijackThis log in this topic.
Hi I know this is probably off topic but I,m trying to get the biggest response I can. I am a 40 yr. old male who is about to be laid off from a manufacturing job. My plant is closing. Part of our severance is 2 yrs. of paid schooling along with 2 yrs. of unemployment. I would like to study in the computer, i.t. field. My question is which way to go. I have been told that a 2 yr. associate degree is worthless, and that I would be better off to be Microsoft certified. I really do not know what all the qualifications for that program are. I do not live in a big city area, so I would be looking to get into schools,hospital, or manufacturing plant to use my degree. I could commute to the city , but its about 85 miles away, so I would if I had to but would rather not.
So, which way would someone in the computer field advise someone in my situation? I have never been to college before, but believe I would do fairly well.
Being able to diagnose and change parts, security, and networking are all three important things to know and understand
Have you considered networking or system administration? cisco and microsoft do courses. CCNA and MCNA there are others too.
What sort of IT do you want to do, though? Editing/Graphics, hardware/software support, general support, fixing computers, get rid of virus stuff, admin jobs, hardware/software design, games, databases.. the list is very long..
I'm sure you can do microsoft courses from home, dont know if niggles' links say anything about that though..
3. Software: these folks generally do the user training, development, and administration of software applications and programmes. Of the three groups, they are more "generalists" than specialists.
It takes a long time to go through most solid computing degrees. IF you have just two years, you are best off taking some sort of course and getting yourself a certification. There may be some courses at your local communitty college that can help you out though. The best thing is experience. If you do go to college you should definitely look into student aid or internship jobs in any type of IT. Most communitty colleges have jobs for students in their own IT offices.
HI! Thanks everyone for your suggestions. It looks like the certification would be the best bet based on everyone's input. I'll have to find out if the gov. sponsored TAA program will pay for that. I will read every article listed here.
I kinda like fixing things, I like to come onto these boards and read thru to try to maximise and fine tune my system. I'm thinking about the repair, clean up route, but not sure. I will have to check into what is the most marketable computer fields and of course, the highest starting pay for my area. My local college has a decent i.t. program so I'll run down there and talk to them.
I knew a guy, his name was Neal, who used to install computer systems. I don't know what you call a person who does work like that. Lets say you had a little business or something that you just started. You rented a business office and you needed to have 10 or 20 computers set up and running. Neal would be the guy to do the job for you. I don't know what Neal's job category is called, but he made a lot of money and I don't think he went to school for it.
Neal was a friend of a neighbor named Laura. Laura used to live in my apartment complex. At one time in her life, Laura used to work as a hooker for Heidi Fleiss. Neal caused a little trouble and the cops came for him on several occasions. Laura was also a person of interest when the cops came to our building. Neal had a drug problem. He was a little zany, a little crazy, quite the character. Actually both Neal and his friend Laura had drug problems: heroin and methamphetamine.
Neighbor #2, Robert, is an aquaintance of mine who used to work with computers. Robert became aware of the shenanigins going on in our building as it related to Neal and 'tested' Neals computer acumen by asking him several tough questions about networking or something like that. He said that Robert, though he never went to school, passed with flying colors. Robert said he asked him one question inparticular that pretty much told Robert that Neal was indeed good at what he does. I guess Robert had a knack for computer related things.
I was recently infected by Trojan.VundoB and I came here for help, I followed the steps given to me in this [topic="http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=140296&st=0&gopid=810434&#entry810434"]thread[/topic]. Unfortunately, it didn't work and my Norton Scanner keeps picking it up. I have followed the steps twice, but it seems to be clinging on quite well.
For some reason, I did not get an 'extra.txt' file or whatever it is called. Can I locate it on my HDD anywhere?
Then run Malwarebytes and lets see what was removed and what was not, that will determine if another program needs to be run.
C:\Documents and Settings\Matt\Local Settings\Temp\nsmC9A.tmp\System.dll (Worm.Voterai) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.
You have a marker in your log for the SDBot worm Lets run the removal tool, to be effective it needs to be run from Safemode.
Ok so the log from SD Fix is absolutely huuuuuge and contains a lot of random gobbledegook (might be code, you tell me). is there anything you need me to cut out or shall i just upload it as an attachment so you can look at it there?
I have Windows 8.1 fully updated (afaik - automatic updates were applied to my system) and I am using ESET NOD32 as a free trial.
It's picked up svchost.exe in a temp directory as being problematic - with the trojan "coinminer J" being the problem with it.
Windows Defender (this is not working now as it was disabled/removed before ESET was installed) also picked up the svchost in a temp directory as being a problem, yet it seems to be recurring.
I am waiting to see if ESET will do anything different other than just stash another temp dir svchost.exe file in quarantine awaiting removal or what but I'm pretty certain it won't change a dang thing. It's really messing with my gpu to the extent I'm regularly exceeding 90 degrees on my graphics card and playing GTA V on the steam platform only pushes the card further so I'm not going to play that for the foreseeable until this issue gets fixed.
I'm also getting adware pretty much constantly on Chrome and more recently with Firefox and that's also driving me crazy.
I did as you requested and got as far as running the scan. Well, it doesn't work. I can't get it to work at all. I downloaded the 64 bit version of it, tried running it but I got nothing. Doesn't even show up in task manager as running.
No. Again and just to be sure, I've tried both 64 bit and 32 bit versions of FRST (despite having 64 bit Win) after a hard reset, nothing happens.
I've tried that and still nothing. It's not even thinking about loading it, it's just..not doing anything whatsoever when I click to run it or when I select it and hit enter to run it, or run it through Win+r, or anything like that, it just isn't doing whatever it's supposed to be doing.
Success! However I won't be able to post this until tomorrow evening as I'm due to spend about nine hours on a coach to get back home - I'm just typing this out packing it up and then putting my daughter to bed ready for the long day tomorrow.
That said, I'm familiar (at a basic level) with the sort of information such reports give out. Should the report use sensitive information such as my computer's name and my workgroup name, is it okay if I do not include these names in the logfile response?
Sorry for the delay, here is the logfile as requested - minor redactions indicated by "-----" though nothing of significance has otherwise been removed.
Not sure if I did this bit right, all I got was an xml file, which I'd opened up in IE - I've just copied and pasted it.
I am infected with some sort of spyware/virus. AVG will detect it and put it into the vault and Spybot will find something and delete it but it still lives. Every time i search on google it brings up Amazon.com with my search, and it changes my IE security settings everything so that it lets any cookies come on my comp. Please help!!
Did you get infected via Messenger? In case you did, I strongly recommend you to uninstall MSN Messenger since it is infected.
I see you installed Kazaa. Kazaa is bundled with spyware, that's why I strongly recommend you uninstall Kazaa, because as long as you keep Kazaa, we won't be able to solve your problem, because the bundled spyware/adware components will get reinstalled immediately again.
Thanks very much for your prompt reply. Yes, I think I did get infected via MSN so I have uninstalled "Windows Live Messenger".I have the following problems:
1) Kazaa, P2P Networking, I have unistalled Kazaa and P2P long time ago so they don't show up on my list....I guess they didn't go away.
I discovered this morning that my emachine PC with Windows XP will not boot. I've tried all day without any luck. I went to the safe mode to look at the error log which says "Hanging application iexplorer.exe, v. ..., hang module hungapp, v. ..., hang address ..." and another which says "Faulting application mmc.exe, v. ..., faulting module unknown, v. ..." and another which says "Faulting application explorer.exe, v. ..., faulting module ntdll.dll, v. ...". There is also a file in the WINDOWS folder called "ntbtlog" which shows that only the first few drivers loaded, but the all the rest did not load. I attempted to clean with ATF cleaner and scan with AVG Anti-Spyware 7.5. I also ran a "hijackthis" log scan and am pasting it below.
Also, I apparently turned off the System Restore a while ago to fix another problem and forgot to turn it back on so I have no restore points saved in almost one year. Any advice on what to do in this situation and can the situation be saved without wiping out the harddrive? Most sincerely and gratefully,
Hello tox and welcome to the BC Hijackthis forum. I'm not seeing alot in the HijackThis log so let's try another scanner and see what it shows us.
I have been infected with Delsim Dialer Trojan and i deleted it with Avas Antivirus,but i think infected files are still on my computer.Here is my log:
Trojan is still there and now it blocks my connection so i cant use intenet at all.Below is SDFix report:
I tried to follow your instructions,so here is what ive done:ive started Services.msc like you sad,but i couldnt use any options like delete stop,etc;and i couldnt find service 33082;so i went to msconfig and ive disabled Microsoft Internet Explorer service.I used OTMoveIt and succesfuly moved iexplore.exe,but when i scannned with Hijackthis there was no more entries:
When the machine rebooted,everything was doing fine for a while,i could use internet again.But after few minutes internet slowed down,and then it stopped working again.So i scanned with Hijackthis and found O23 - Service: Microsoft Internet Explorer - Unknown owner - C:\WINDOWS\iexplore.exe again.This is the newest Hijackthis log:
Font Vulnerability: A privilege elevation vulnerability exists in the way that Windows process certain fonts. This vulnerability could allow a logged on user to take complete control of the system.
Windows Kernel Vulnerability: A privilege elevation vulnerability exists in the way that the affected operating system versions process certain access requests. This vulnerability could allow a logged on user to take complete control of the system.
Object Management Vulnerability: A denial of service vulnerability exists that could allow an attacker to send a specially crafted request locally to an affected operating system version. An attacker who exploited this vulnerability could cause the affected system to stop responding and automatically restart.
CSRSS Vulnerability: A privilege elevation vulnerability exists in the way that the affected operating system versions process certain access requests. This vulnerability could allow a logged on user to take complete control of the system.