Hi there aarmattingly and welcome to GeekPolice!
I am
Gabethebabe and I will be helping you with this issue. Before we start some general remarks/rules:
- Whilst I´m helping you, please follow my instructions carefully and do not experiment on your own or accept help from other persons.
- Feel free to ask questions! Especially if my instructions are not clear. I´m here to help, not confuse you.
- I will try and respond quickly, but please understand I do have a real life (job, wife, 3 kids, kinky hobbies).
- Stick with me till the end. If your computer starts running better, doesn´t mean it is clean yet!
====================I see you have a windows setup disk. We will use it for the following step.
- Put the Windows XP setup disk in the disk drive, restart the computer and boot from the disk.
- In the Welcome to Setup screen, hit R to start the Recovery Console
- Select the installation that you want to repair (typically there will be only one)
- You will have to enter the Administrator password when prompted (hit Enter if the admin account does not have a password)
- At the command prompt type FixMbr and hit Enter.
- Type exit and hit Enter to reboot your computer normally (remove the Windows XP setup disk).
NOTE: if you don´t know how to make your computer boot from a disk, check out
this page.
====================- Download TDSSKiller by Kaspersky from here and save it to your desktop
- Doubleclick TDSSKiller.exe to run the tool
- Click the Start Scan button
- After the scan has finished, click the Close button
- Click the Report button and copy/paste the contents of it into your next reply
- The report can also be found in the root of your Windows drive (most likely C:\).
====================After these steps, please let me know if MSE continues to detect the alureon threat.
