Hello all

I am a firm believer in Malwarebytes and have a paid version. I also encourage all my computer customers to use the paid version.

Here is my situation.

I used Malwarebytes to clean a computer and it found many Trojan/Virus and said it removed them.

After a reboot I went on the web and did an update to the database.

It again found the same Trojan/virus as before and again said it deleted them, yet they keep coming back

Windows/system32/autochk.dll
HKLM/software/Microsoft/Windows/Currentversion/run/autochk

system32/config/systemprofile/protect.dll
system32/config/systemprofile/startmenu/program/startup/chkdisk

There were several others.

There was no program that I could find that would remove these totally.

I removed the hard drive and slaved it as USB and scan with Mcafee and Mcafee not only found theses but another instance of protect running along with about 12 infected .MP3 songs.

Not sure why Malwarebytes could not find the infected Songs and the other copy of protect.

After cleaning, put HD back in system and again updated with Malwarebytes. Nothing found. System totally cleaned now.

Bill

Hi,

MalwareBytes does find them and deletes them, but something else is dropping them again - most probably an infected userinit.exe or user32.dll
Both files may not be deleted but replaced.
That's why I suggest you read the following: Scan and post logs - read note at bottom in green
If you're having Malware related issues with your computer that you're unable to resolve.

1. Please read and follow the instructions provided here: I'm infected - What do I do now?
2. If needed please post your logs in a NEW topic here: Malware Removal - HijackThis Logs
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• Please do not post any logs in the General forum. We do not work on any logs posted in the General forum.
• Please do not install any software or use any removal/scanning tool except for those you're requested to run by the Helper that will assist you.
• Using these other tools often makes the cleanup task more difficult and time consuming.
• If you have already submitted for assistance at one of the other support sites on the Internet then you should not post a new log here, you should stay working with the Helper from that site until the issue is resolved.
• Do not assume you're clean because you don't see something in the logs. Please wait until the person assisting you provides feedback.
• There are often many others that require asistance as well, so please be patient. If no one has responded within 48 hours then please go ahead and post a request for review

• NOTE: If for some reason you're unable to run some or any of the tools in the first link, then skip that step and move on to the next one. If you can't even run HijackThis, then just proceed and post a NEW topic as shown in the second link describing your issues and someone will assist you as soon as they can.