Hello. Yep, we'll have a look at the installing issue once you have done everything in this post, because the malware should be gone now.
Lets wrap this up.
- Open HijackThis
- Choose "Do a system scan only"
- Check the boxes in front of these lines: (if present)
O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-21-4069843678-2951840599-648089840-1001\..\Run: [ygqawqg] "c:\users\dekoh\appdata\local\ygqawqg.exe" ygqawqg (User 'aaron')
O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-21-4069843678-2951840599-648089840-1001\..\Run: [MyWebSearch Email Plugin] C:\PROGRA~1\MYWEBS~1\bar\1.bin\mwsoemon.exe (User 'aaron')
O4 - S-1-5-21-4069843678-2951840599-648089840-1001 Startup: LimeWire On Startup.lnk = C:\Program Files\LimeWire\LimeWire.exe (User 'aaron')
O4 - S-1-5-21-4069843678-2951840599-648089840-1001 User Startup: LimeWire On Startup.lnk = C:\Program Files\LimeWire\LimeWire.exe (User 'aaron')
- Press "Fix Checked"
- Close Hijack This.
We have to remove and update a few things now.
- Click Start >> Control Panel.
- Under the Programs click Uninstall a Program
- Highlight the following:
Adobe Reader 8.1.3
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 6 Update 1
- Click on the Uninstall/Change button at the top.
Then download and install Adobe Reader version 9.1 from here:
http://get.adobe.com/uk/reader/Now update Java.
- Download the latest version of Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 Update 12.
- Select the first option where it says "This release includes the highly anticipated...".
- Click the "Download" button to the right.
- In the Window that opens, select your platform and language, check the "agree" box, and click Continue.
- Click on the link to download Windows Offline Installation and save to your desktop.
- Close any programs you may have running - especially your web browser.
- Then from your desktop double-click on jre-6u13-windows-i586-p.exe that you downloaded to install the newest version.
You are running Firefox 3.0.1, please download and install Firefox version 3.0.8 from here:
http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/Let me know how the machine is running once you have done that.
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