Mrxsmb virus

If you have to restore it will also restore the malware. Host file only affects Internet Explorer. Its just a text file which redirects IE. Note: a REAL not lame spyware virus could hijack your entire browser in that case your in over your head…time to refomat. It actually dates back to Unix or possibly earlier. I am also being redirected on every first and second occasion I enter a search into google and click on the intended results.

On the third occasion it will take me into the intended sites. Any help with this would be great. I am also having the exact same problem as Stuart. I ran adaware and it did not fix the problem. I am also having the same problem with being redirected the 1st and 2nd but on the 3rd attempt it goes to the right spot and i have ran a couple of different sprware programs.

I also have the same exact problem as K5steve87 being redirected 1st and 2nd time but working correctly when clicking on a Google search result.

I have updated windows defender and ran it to no avail. I am running the most current Norton. I also have the same problem. My google seems to work fine… it finds what i want but when i click on the link it redirects me somwhere else. Still no ability to download any anti-virus software. I have been on the trail of this one. Seems to only affect google searches. I have made some headway. When I rename it and stop the process I can no longer access the internet.

It appears my browser is being redirected using this proxy somehow. Hopefully I have put you guys on the trail too. It immediately quarantined the files. Although the insructions claim the computer would be fine with the files in quarantine it was not until i deleted them as an option from the qurantined files page that my computer was fully functional.

The results were intantaneous. My sound driver had to be reinstalled after this,since i had no sound at all,I assume this was a complication from the virus s. I hope this helps. This website helped quite a bit. IE and FireFox and Windows Explorer will browse forward for sometimes less than a second and sometimes for up to almost 10 seconds. If I want to go to ebay or anywhere, it goes there for a second or a few seconds and then returns to the start page.

The aol browser is OK and never malfunctions. I use Mcafee security that comes with aol. At this point just for more info, the forward green arrow is highlighted indicating that I have backed up the browser.

If I click the forward arrow to attempt to go forward again to ebay, it will act the same and return to the start page again. Additionally, If I were to use anything that uses the Windows Explorer browser, the same thing will happen.

I have uninstalled and then reinstalled FF. I have run ATF cleaner. I have run Malwarebytes Anti-malware and SDfix. I am submitting the asked for logs here. Also, copy and paste works intermittantly but mostly not. When the browser works which is every now and then the copy and paste function works normal as well.

I recently repaired a machine that was getting redirected only in google. It appears that the host file had been re-written and included hundreds of sites to go to all dealing with google.

I found myself unable to edit and save, or create a new and copy over the old. What wound up having to happen was I created a new folder Location: C:WindowsSystem32driversetc called etc2. I copied the contents of the original etc folder. Everything exept the host file. I opened the old host file in notepad and edited the sites out. I then saved as to the new directory etc2. I then renamed the old etc folder to etc3. I changed the name of the new etc2 to etc. Attempted to use google and it works fine.

What a pain in the A , but it worked. I have been on different sites that direct to all over the place, but found nothing that could help me.

I hope others are able to use this method and benifit from my pains. One quick note is that the host file is a protected file and does not show up in the folder unless you go to tools, folder options,view, scroll down the lise and uncheck hide protected operating system files.

Apparently, quite recently a worm called Conflicker also known as downadup, downup, and kido has been spreading over the internet at a very rapid pace. The symptomes include:. I have found that these are all results of Conflicker. It only affects Windows operating systems based on an exploit. I googled it and found it. When I installed the patch, everything on my computer went back to normal. I can even perform my Antivirus updates, and surf freely without having my google pages redirected all the time.

Hopefully it will work for you too. I am working a relatives desktop computer that has some kind of redirect virus. Before that it was Baidu chinese search engine, but i got rid of that one virus. If i use the search toolbar in the top right corner I will be redirected several times. Any answers please let me know. Thank you. Everytime I try to search a website through google in firefox, I can see all the search results but when I go to click on one of them it redirects me to somewhere completely different, each time I try a different link its a different site, never the same one twice.

But if I copy the address directly into the address bar its fine, it only seems to happen in firefox. Its driving me mad!! I had a very similar problem and the above comments didnt really help. What did help was running ComboFix.

That really did the trick! Everytime I try to use Internet Explorer it goes to! I am unable to look at my email, shop online, or do anything because it automatically goes to this site which is nothing. That really did the trick worked for me to. Please help me.. E, ran all the spyware and malware searches and it found nothing. This problem occured when my roomate was watching Netflix Instant Replay and it stopped the movie and redirected him to stopbadsite.

What happened and how can I fix it? Same problem…. I ran Hijack this and found all sorts of sites that came with my IP as the Host. Hijackthis recommended for me to go into Windowssystem32driversetchost. Im running Windows7. Hope this helps out! The event logs in event viewer also don't report on anything out of the ordinary.

Everything is exactly according to the SMB2 dialect 3. The other invocations are answered by the SMB Redirector cache client side, and never hit the wire I verified which I verified by setting the registry key DirectoryCacheLifetime to 0 and rerunning the trace. Disabling the cache shows the individual invocations and the time duration goes up to 0. This then repeats another times with the only difference that the Find Request File returning all the sibling folders is no longer issued and but is cached once again verified by setting DirectoryCacheLifetime to 0, which takes the runtime up to 3.

The closest I can work it out from this is that on the machines that have issues, PathIsDirectory must take a different path through the networking stack, in combination with the FileInfoCacheLifetime not working properly on the new machines.

I have verified that the networking dll's used on both machine are bytewise identical so if that is the case it must be configuration somewhere that I'm unaware of. I'm going to give it a while and look at it with fresh eyes. Once again, happy with any and all suggestions! Attachments: Up to 10 attachments including images can be used with a maximum of 3. I could not respond directly to your response because there is a character limit on that type of message which I exceeded so I am responding via a new "answer".

I use a variety of tools - you might recognize one of the screenshots that I used as being Microsoft Message Analyzer now sadly discontinued.

Here they are:. KiSwitchKernelStackContinue ntoskrnl! If this issue is urgent, I would suggest you open a case with Microsoft where more in-depth investigation can be done so that you would get a more satisfying explanation and solution to this issue. To get more insight into the reasons for the differences in behaviour, you could try using Event Tracing for Windows ETW. The behaviour that I observed matched that of your older machines. Please remember as volunteers we are not responsible for the development of Windows or the computer hardware and drivers.

If you will work with me, I will help until the issue is resolved. That is usually a driver issue. That often will work when running from the recovery environment does not. You can try Option 5 here and run StartUp Repair to see if it helps. You can make a Windows 10 Install disk and try to use it to repair the present installation.

Make a Windows 10 Disk using the Media Creation Tool - select to install on another computer and the same version you have now. Installing Windows 10 using the media creation tool - create media then boot with it - use method I outlined above. If you have problems uploading the minidumps copy them to the Desktop or the Documents folder and upload them from there. Please let us know the results and if you need further assistance. How satisfied are you with this reply?

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