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Anti-Malware Mammoth
You're most welcome!At this point, I think I should thank you for the extended effort you're putting into helping me. It's much appreciated.
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http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/topic/293602-windows-crashing-unexpectedlychrome-not-working/page__st__15Next to the box: Browse to the file you want to submit: click on the Browse... tab and navigate to the below:-
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Thanks, I checked the results and it appears not to be infected.The good news: I uploaded the MBR file you requested.
Must admit I was not expecting that, it may be that Microsoft Security Essentials has dealt with it...However too the best of my knowledge this particular AV does not have the ability to deal with such infections.The bad news (or possibly more good): Running MBRCheck again, I did not get the same warning. Instead, it said "Windows 7 MBR code detected".
SHA1: 1BB72AA843C54C64E74C9F6C9BD22FA2AFA08966To this W7 related:-
SHA1: 4379A3D43019B46FA357F7DD6A53B45A3CA8FB79Gremlins in the machine maybe?
Levity aside,strange indeed and I have to be honest at this time I am at a loss what has occurred here, regardless the fact it appears to be all for the good etc.No problem and you have done nothing wrong and have thus far followed all of my advice/instructions etc.So I was unable to create the dump file you requested. Instead, here is the new log from MBRCheck (I tried, unsuccessfully, multiple times to try and get the error message again, but this is the last one and the only one I kept.)
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Good.IE8 seems to be running fine now, with no redirects or pop ups
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User DataNavigate to the folder called Default in the directory window that opens and and right-click on it and select Rename.
What has been flagged appears to be Driver from a prior installation of Daemon Tools Lite. Even though technically leaving such in place should cause no harm because it is from a CD Emulation software application and the chance it may have been patched by malware it would be prudent to actually remove this file as follows. It may also be what is know as a false positive but since the software it relates to is no longer present it might as well go then run another quick scan with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware as a precaution.TDSKiller only found 1 threat this time, and it was not the rootkit that it originally found on the first scan.
http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/topic/293602-windows-crashing-unexpectedlychrome-not-working/page__pid__1952316#entry1952316Next to the box: Browse to the file you want to submit: click on the Browse... tab and navigate to the below:-
:Services sptd :Files C:\Windows\system32\Drivers\sptd.sys C:\Users\Ed\AppData\Roaming\DAEMON Tools Lite :Commands [CreateRestorePoint] [EmptyTemp] [Reboot]
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Actually the situation is not that bad at all I assure you.This is going to be a sad, sad post.
Good...I do concur Google Chrome does seem to be prone to various issues and conflicts but as with any reasonably new software it is bound to have a few snags every now and again and with each new update they are improved upon. Saying that, I'm not a particular fan of the browser myself and or anything Google related because of the privacy issues in the past. I actually only have a copy of it myself on two of my rigs to help me when assisting people like your good self etc.First the good news! Changing the Default folder to Backup Default for Chrome worked perfectly. Chrome now works like a charm. I think there is something wrong in the coding with the way bookmarks are stored. You'd think Google would've fixed this themselves by now...
OK this should not occurred but I have some suspicions why it did and will check this out further. The orphaned driver in question SPTD (SCSI Pass Through Direct) driver is not always exclusively used by Daemon Tools Lite. Anyway in the meantime I have a few tasks for your good self and not to worry OK.Anyway, on to the bad news. For starters, I was unable to upload sptd.sys. Despite following your directions on showing all hidden/protected files, the file just wouldn't show up within the browser when I clicked Open and navigated to the proper folder. I can find the file with Start>Search Bar just fine and it IS in the folder specified. The browser just won't show it for some reason.
Up next is OTL. The custom script you provided gave me the BSOD on execution of the first line. I tried it twice with the same result. I imagine the next step would be to try it in "safe mode", but I won't proceed until you give the OK.
@Echo off cmd /c chkdsk c: |find /v "percent" >> "%userprofile%\desktop\checkhd.txt" del %0
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Good.Everything seems to be running just fine. Browsers still working, and no more BSODs
Your machine was definitely infected and I suspect Sophos Anti-Rootkit may have been partially successful at what ever point in time you ran it from the beginning of the month on-wards and there was various entries I identified via both the ComboFix and OTL logs I reviewed that were further indication of such, which we subsequently removed. Plus the symptoms you had been mentioning were systematic with malware infections though the use of a pseudo registry cleaner Advanced SystemCare 3 very probably did not help matters. Personally I am not a advocate of any applications that claim to clean the Windows Registry, at best they will do little too improve overall performance and at worst they create major problems and any backups they may create are very rarely successfully re-merged....The Windows Registry is actually fairly robust by design and more so with the most up-to date Operating System Windows 7(32 & 64 bit).So I'm just curious... where was there a problem in the first place, and when did you fix it? A lot of the scans we've done seem to have turned up negative, and from my end it seems like the machine just wasn't working right, and then it was. I'm always eager to learn more about computers and how they work, so any insight into how this was accomplished would be great.
You are very welcome and a sincere pleasure to be of assistance!That said, THANK YOU for all your help. Thank you for taking the time and having the patience to tackle this very strange set of problems. It is most appreciated. Really.
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