I want to provide all relevant info, so forgive me if this is a long first post.
A few weeks ago, I got the COM Surrogate / Poweliks virus and someone from another site aided me in removing it, but I was never quite convinced that the problem was gone. After the problem was supposed to be gone, I had 1 more instance of lots of COM Surrogate entries flooding my Task Manager and on one occasion, Rogue Killer found something and I was instructed to delete it. From that point on, it seemed like I was in the clear. As a side note, ever since this incident, I haven't been able to access the Windows App Store or run Xbox One Smartglass.
Ok, so now onto my new problem. I wanted some help with an Xbox achievement, so I googled it and clicked on a link to the site TrueAchievements.com in Internet Explorer. I proceeded in playing the game on my TV, and when I turned back to my computer, Windows Defender messages kept popping up saying that it has detected malware and was attempting to deal with it. When I tried to see what was going on, my computer grinded to a halt. I closed 1 Firefox window and it closed quickly. I then attempted to close Internet Explorer...2 of the tabs closed relatively quickly, but the one for TrueAchievements.com hung for a while and eventually a message popped up about a script that was trying to run and it gave me options to let it go or close it. I unplugged the internet at this point.
I then opened up Task Manager (this took a while to load) and I saw that there were 10 or so Google Chrome entries even though I wasn't using Chrome and almost never do. I still had Rogue Killer on my computer from the last problem, so I ran it and it killed a bunch of processes in the prescan, and after the scan finished, I deleted one red registry entry.
In Task Manager, I right clicked on the problem process and then opened the destination folder. I ended all of the fake Chrome processes and then quickly deleted the .exe, which immediately returned my computer to normal speed. However, I've been reading other peoples' accounts of this issue, and they say it comes back if you restart your computer, which I have not done yet.
The .exe was located here:
C:\Users\Zack\AppData\LocalLow\Temp\alojvbn\Htfkdhullt\Gofxwnzvsto.exe
I then ran a Windows Defender quick scan. Nothing was detected, but there were many Trojan entries in the quarantined area which I removed. They were all from tonight. I then ran a Malwarebytes (free version) threat scan and it didn't detect anything. Finally, I ran Rogue Killer once more and no processes were killed during the prescan and after the scan, there were no red entries in the registry tab. However, it did seem like there were quite a few yellow (or is it orange?) entries in the IAT Hooks tab.
My computer seems to be ok at this moment, but like I said, I haven't restarted yet. Any help with this would be much appreciated.
A few weeks ago, I got the COM Surrogate / Poweliks virus and someone from another site aided me in removing it, but I was never quite convinced that the problem was gone. After the problem was supposed to be gone, I had 1 more instance of lots of COM Surrogate entries flooding my Task Manager and on one occasion, Rogue Killer found something and I was instructed to delete it. From that point on, it seemed like I was in the clear. As a side note, ever since this incident, I haven't been able to access the Windows App Store or run Xbox One Smartglass.
Ok, so now onto my new problem. I wanted some help with an Xbox achievement, so I googled it and clicked on a link to the site TrueAchievements.com in Internet Explorer. I proceeded in playing the game on my TV, and when I turned back to my computer, Windows Defender messages kept popping up saying that it has detected malware and was attempting to deal with it. When I tried to see what was going on, my computer grinded to a halt. I closed 1 Firefox window and it closed quickly. I then attempted to close Internet Explorer...2 of the tabs closed relatively quickly, but the one for TrueAchievements.com hung for a while and eventually a message popped up about a script that was trying to run and it gave me options to let it go or close it. I unplugged the internet at this point.
I then opened up Task Manager (this took a while to load) and I saw that there were 10 or so Google Chrome entries even though I wasn't using Chrome and almost never do. I still had Rogue Killer on my computer from the last problem, so I ran it and it killed a bunch of processes in the prescan, and after the scan finished, I deleted one red registry entry.
In Task Manager, I right clicked on the problem process and then opened the destination folder. I ended all of the fake Chrome processes and then quickly deleted the .exe, which immediately returned my computer to normal speed. However, I've been reading other peoples' accounts of this issue, and they say it comes back if you restart your computer, which I have not done yet.
The .exe was located here:
C:\Users\Zack\AppData\LocalLow\Temp\alojvbn\Htfkdhullt\Gofxwnzvsto.exe
I then ran a Windows Defender quick scan. Nothing was detected, but there were many Trojan entries in the quarantined area which I removed. They were all from tonight. I then ran a Malwarebytes (free version) threat scan and it didn't detect anything. Finally, I ran Rogue Killer once more and no processes were killed during the prescan and after the scan, there were no red entries in the registry tab. However, it did seem like there were quite a few yellow (or is it orange?) entries in the IAT Hooks tab.
My computer seems to be ok at this moment, but like I said, I haven't restarted yet. Any help with this would be much appreciated.
