DEP - Generic Host Process (and PC auto shutting down) after virii

The-ReverendThe-Reverend London
edited January 2010 in Spyware & Virus Removal
Hi there and apologies for the length of the post.

Having some major issues with my PC and was referred to here. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Here is what's happened so far:

I had AVG on my PC, the PC was behaving oddly and I installed Microsoft Security Essentials instead. That picked up some viruses including trojans which I deleted. I was still having issues though and I didn't trust entering passwords etc. into web forms. Google searches in Firefox came up with links that didn't take me to the pages they should have done, I had to copy the shortcut and paste it into the url bar manually, not click through. Obviously still some Malware left on the system.

I installed Malwarebytes Anti-Malware which picked up a load more viruses missed by MSE. These were deleted by the program but one came back after each reboot, sdra64.exe, which I eventually got rid of with the help of a program called Process Explorer. I ran Malwarebytes Anti-Malware again to get rid of the other bits than the main exe left on the system, they deleted successfully. There were no more problems found by Anti-Malware.

Still Firefox was not working properly, it was also coming up with new tabs to the same sort of sites which Google links were redirecting to. I was also, following removal of sdra64.exe (which showed up as svchost.exe in Tast Manager) getting seemingly random messages that Windows would be shutting down in 60 seconds and to save any work etc. I have got around this with the shutdown.exe -a command, but it keeps happening.

I tried to install Ad-Aware, and discovered Windows Installer was now not working. I found a fix for that, editing the registry then registering it or something similar, can't remember exactly, and installed Ad-Aware. That came up with some matches which I all deleted, although they looked like genuine files, part of online poker rooms to me.

I then also installed SUPERAntiSpyware, ran that, it too came up with matches (not sure if false positives or not) which I deleted.

I was then left with two problems. On bootup, as soon as Windows (XP with Service Pack 3) loads, I get a DEP message - "To help protect your computer, Windows has closed this program."

Name: Generic Host Process for Win32 Services
Publisher: Microsoft Corporation

If I close the message I get the option to report error to Microsoft, if I do or just say no, I get the same DEP message come straight back up again, so I always have this window on when Windows is booted. Annoying but no biggie. I'm more concerned that this is the sdra64.exe virus being stopped running/doing something again (although where on the system it's still hiding I don't know), so I do not want to turn off DEP.

The more serious issue is that the 60 second shutdown warning still keeps popping up. If I'm not at my PC to abort it will reset in the middle of whatever work I've got open.... "Windows must now restart because the DCOM Server Process Launcher service terminated unexpectedly"

All the programs I've listed above now show my PC as clean. As per the FAQ here I downloaded Hijack This. Again the Windows Installer wouldn't work but I reinstalled that from the Microsoft site and Hijack This did install. This is the log:

Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.3 (BETA)
Scan saved at 11:31:33 AM, on 01/22/2010
Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.6001.18702)
Boot mode: Normal

Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
c:\Program Files\Microsoft Security Essentials\MsMpEng.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\Program Files\LogMeIn\x86\LogMeInSystray.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\InstallShield\UpdateService\issch.exe
C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jusched.exe
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Security Essentials\msseces.exe
C:\Program Files\Google\GoogleToolbarNotifier\GoogleToolbarNotifier.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\dumprep.exe
C:\Program Files\LogMeIn\x86\LMIGuardian.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe
C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger\msnmsgr.exe
C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jqs.exe
C:\WINDOWS\runservice.exe
C:\Program Files\Skype\Phone\Skype.exe
C:\Program Files\LogMeIn\x86\RaMaint.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\rundll32.exe
C:\Program Files\LogMeIn\x86\LogMeIn.exe
C:\Program Files\LogMeIn\x86\LMIGuardian.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvsvc32.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\PnkBstrA.exe
c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Shared\sqlwriter.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\wuauclt.exe
C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Contacts\wlcomm.exe
C:\Program Files\Skype\Plugin Manager\skypePM.exe
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\msiexec.exe
C:\Program Files\TrendMicro\HiJackThis\HiJackThis.exe

R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://www.thehendonmob.com/
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Page_URL = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=69157
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Search_URL = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=54896
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Page = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=54896
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=69157
O2 - BHO: AcroIEHlprObj Class - {06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3} - C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\ActiveX\AcroIEHelper.dll
O2 - BHO: Skype add-on (mastermind) - {22BF413B-C6D2-4d91-82A9-A0F997BA588C} - C:\Program Files\Skype\Toolbars\Internet Explorer\SkypeIEPlugin.dll
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {5C255C8A-E604-49b4-9D64-90988571CECB} - (no file)
O2 - BHO: Windows Live Sign-in Helper - {9030D464-4C02-4ABF-8ECC-5164760863C6} - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live\WindowsLiveLogin.dll
O2 - BHO: Google Toolbar Helper - {AA58ED58-01DD-4d91-8333-CF10577473F7} - C:\Program Files\Google\Google Toolbar\GoogleToolbar_32.dll
O2 - BHO: Google Toolbar Notifier BHO - {AF69DE43-7D58-4638-B6FA-CE66B5AD205D} - C:\Program Files\Google\GoogleToolbarNotifier\5.4.4525.1752\swg.dll
O2 - BHO: Java(tm) Plug-In 2 SSV Helper - {DBC80044-A445-435b-BC74-9C25C1C588A9} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jp2ssv.dll
O2 - BHO: JQSIEStartDetectorImpl - {E7E6F031-17CE-4C07-BC86-EABFE594F69C} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\lib\deploy\jqs\ie\jqs_plugin.dll
O3 - Toolbar: Google Toolbar - {2318C2B1-4965-11d4-9B18-009027A5CD4F} - C:\Program Files\Google\Google Toolbar\GoogleToolbar_32.dll
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NvCplDaemon] RUNDLL32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\NvCpl.dll,NvStartup
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [nwiz] nwiz.exe /install
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NvMediaCenter] RUNDLL32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\NvMcTray.dll,NvTaskbarInit
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [LogMeIn GUI] "C:\Program Files\LogMeIn\x86\LogMeInSystray.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [ISUSScheduler] "C:\Program Files\Common Files\InstallShield\UpdateService\issch.exe" -start
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [QuickTime Task] "C:\Program Files\QuickTime\qttask.exe" -atboottime
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SunJavaUpdateSched] "C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jusched.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [MSSE] "c:\Program Files\Microsoft Security Essentials\msseces.exe" -hide
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [UserFaultCheck] %systemroot%\system32\dumprep 0 -u
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [swg] "C:\Program Files\Google\GoogleToolbarNotifier\GoogleToolbarNotifier.exe"
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [ctfmon.exe] C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [msnmsgr] "C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger\msnmsgr.exe" /background
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Skype] "C:\Program Files\Skype\Phone\Skype.exe" /nosplash /minimized
O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-18\..\RunOnce: [RunNarrator] Narrator.exe (User 'SYSTEM')
O4 - HKUS\.DEFAULT\..\RunOnce: [RunNarrator] Narrator.exe (User 'Default user')
O8 - Extra context menu item: Google Sidewiki... - res://C:\Program Files\Google\Google Toolbar\Component\GoogleToolbarDynamic_mui_en_60D6097707281E79.dll/cmsidewiki.html
O9 - Extra button: InterCasino £££ - {03588886-5C50-4645-BD5D-F105F84417DE} - C:\Documents and Settings\Rob\Desktop\InterCasino £££.lnk (file missing)
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: InterCasino £££ - {03588886-5C50-4645-BD5D-F105F84417DE} - C:\Documents and Settings\Rob\Desktop\InterCasino £££.lnk (file missing)
O9 - Extra button: Coral Eurobet Poker - {050AC5CD-E1E1-41ab-8CE0-61B56EFA7FA1} - C:\Program Files\CoralEurobetPoker\coraleurobetpoker.exe (file missing)
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Coral Eurobet Poker - {050AC5CD-E1E1-41ab-8CE0-61B56EFA7FA1} - C:\Program Files\CoralEurobetPoker\coraleurobetpoker.exe (file missing)
O9 - Extra button: Casino-on-Net - {3015DB92-158E-4b77-9020-85C8E311FBB5} - C:\PROGRA~1\CASINO~1\Casino.exe (file missing)
O9 - Extra button: WH GBP Casino - {37236812-C1A2-4529-A9CE-CFE04E3DF08A} - C:\Documents and Settings\Rob\Desktop\WH GBP Casino.lnk (file missing)
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: WH GBP Casino - {37236812-C1A2-4529-A9CE-CFE04E3DF08A} - C:\Documents and Settings\Rob\Desktop\WH GBP Casino.lnk (file missing)
O9 - Extra button: PokerStars - {3AD14F0C-ED16-4e43-B6D8-661B03F6A1EF} - C:\Program Files\PokerStars\PokerStarsUpdate.exe
O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {5067A26B-1337-4436-8AFE-EE169C2DA79F} - C:\Program Files\Skype\Toolbars\Internet Explorer\SkypeIEPlugin.dll
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Skype add-on for Internet Explorer - {5067A26B-1337-4436-8AFE-EE169C2DA79F} - C:\Program Files\Skype\Toolbars\Internet Explorer\SkypeIEPlugin.dll
O9 - Extra button: Skype - {77BF5300-1474-4EC7-9980-D32B190E9B07} - C:\Program Files\Skype\Toolbars\Internet Explorer\SkypeIEPlugin.dll
O9 - Extra button: EmpirePoker - {77E68763-4284-41d6-B7E7-B6E1F053A9E7} - C:\Program Files\EmpirePokerMaster\EmpirePoker\RunEPoker.exe (file missing)
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: EmpirePoker - {77E68763-4284-41d6-B7E7-B6E1F053A9E7} - C:\Program Files\EmpirePokerMaster\EmpirePoker\RunEPoker.exe (file missing)
O9 - Extra button: PartyCasino.com - {B4B52284-A248-4c51-9F7C-F0A0C67FCC9D} - C:\Program Files\PartyGaming\PartyCasino\RunCasino.exe
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: PartyCasino.com - {B4B52284-A248-4c51-9F7C-F0A0C67FCC9D} - C:\Program Files\PartyGaming\PartyCasino\RunCasino.exe
O9 - Extra button: PartyPoker.com - {B7FE5D70-9AA2-40F1-9C6B-12A255F085E1} - C:\Program Files\PartyGaming\PartyPoker\RunApp.exe
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: PartyPoker.com - {B7FE5D70-9AA2-40F1-9C6B-12A255F085E1} - C:\Program Files\PartyGaming\PartyPoker\RunApp.exe
O9 - Extra button: Littlewoods Casino - {BAA37C20-5000-11DB-B0DE-0800200C9A66} - C:\Documents and Settings\Rob\Desktop\Littlewoods Casino.lnk (file missing)
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Littlewoods Casino - {BAA37C20-5000-11DB-B0DE-0800200C9A66} - C:\Documents and Settings\Rob\Desktop\Littlewoods Casino.lnk (file missing)
O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {e2e2dd38-d088-4134-82b7-f2ba38496583} - C:\WINDOWS\Network Diagnostic\xpnetdiag.exe
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: @xpsp3res.dll,-20001 - {e2e2dd38-d088-4134-82b7-f2ba38496583} - C:\WINDOWS\Network Diagnostic\xpnetdiag.exe
O9 - Extra button: Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Windows Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
O9 - Extra button: InterCasino £££ - {03588886-5C50-4645-BD5D-F105F84417DE} - C:\Documents and Settings\Rob\Desktop\InterCasino £££.lnk (file missing) (HKCU)
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: InterCasino £££ - {03588886-5C50-4645-BD5D-F105F84417DE} - C:\Documents and Settings\Rob\Desktop\InterCasino £££.lnk (file missing) (HKCU)
O9 - Extra button: WH GBP Casino - {37236812-C1A2-4529-A9CE-CFE04E3DF08A} - http://www.williamhillcasino.com (file missing) (HKCU)
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: WH GBP Casino - {37236812-C1A2-4529-A9CE-CFE04E3DF08A} - http://www.williamhillcasino.com (file missing) (HKCU)
O9 - Extra button: Littlewoods Casino - {BAA37C20-5000-11DB-B0DE-0800200C9A66} - http://www.littlewoodscasino.com (file missing) (HKCU)
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Littlewoods Casino - {BAA37C20-5000-11DB-B0DE-0800200C9A66} - http://www.littlewoodscasino.com (file missing) (HKCU)
O16 - DPF: {0835BC90-6ABC-4F52-A103-4FC3A61F2C33} (A18X Control) - http://www.albatross18.com/cabs/A18X.ocx
O16 - DPF: {17492023-C23A-453E-A040-C7C580BBF700} (Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Tool) - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=39204
O16 - DPF: {406B5949-7190-4245-91A9-30A17DE16AD0} (Snapfish Activia) - http://www1.snapfish.co.uk/SnapfishUKActivia.cab
O16 - DPF: {67DABFBF-D0AB-41FA-9C46-CC0F21721616} (DivXBrowserPlugin Object) - http://download.divx.com/webplayer/stage6/windows/DivXBrowserPlugin.cab
O16 - DPF: {6E32070A-766D-4EE6-879C-DC1FA91D2FC3} (MUWebControl Class) - http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/v6/V5Controls/en/x86/client/muweb_site.cab?1161722446828
O16 - DPF: {8100D56A-5661-482C-BEE8-AFECE305D968} (Facebook Photo Uploader 5 Control) - http://upload.facebook.com/controls/2009.07.28_v5.5.8.1/FacebookPhotoUploader55.cab
O16 - DPF: {E2883E8F-472F-4FB0-9522-AC9BF37916A7} - http://platformdl.adobe.com/NOS/getPlusPlus/1.6/gp.cab
O16 - DPF: {FD0B6769-6490-4A91-AA0A-B5AE0DC75AC9} (Performance Viewer Activex Control) - https://secure.logmein.com/activex/ractrl.cab?lmi=100
O18 - Protocol: skype4com - {FFC8B962-9B40-4DFF-9458-1830C7DD7F5D} - C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\Skype\SKYPE4~1.DLL
O20 - AppInit_DLLs: C:\WINDOWS\system32\curslib.dll
O20 - Winlogon Notify: !SASWinLogon - C:\Program Files\SUPERAntiSpyware\SASWINLO.dll
O22 - SharedTaskScheduler: Browseui preloader - {438755C2-A8BA-11D1-B96B-00A0C90312E1} - C:\WINDOWS\system32\browseui.dll
O22 - SharedTaskScheduler: Component Categories cache daemon - {8C7461EF-2B13-11d2-BE35-3078302C2030} - C:\WINDOWS\system32\browseui.dll
O23 - Service: Google Update Service (gupdate) (gupdate) - Google Inc. - C:\Program Files\Google\Update\GoogleUpdate.exe
O23 - Service: Google Software Updater (gusvc) - Google - C:\Program Files\Google\Common\Google Updater\GoogleUpdaterService.exe
O23 - Service: InstallDriver Table Manager (IDriverT) - Macrovision Corporation - C:\Program Files\Common Files\InstallShield\Driver\11\Intel 32\IDriverT.exe
O23 - Service: Java Quick Starter (JavaQuickStarterService) - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jqs.exe
O23 - Service: LicCtrl Service (LicCtrlService) - Unknown owner - C:\WINDOWS\runservice.exe
O23 - Service: LogMeIn Maintenance Service (LMIMaint) - LogMeIn, Inc. - C:\Program Files\LogMeIn\x86\RaMaint.exe
O23 - Service: LogMeIn - LogMeIn, Inc. - C:\Program Files\LogMeIn\x86\LogMeIn.exe
O23 - Service: NVIDIA Display Driver Service (NVSvc) - NVIDIA Corporation - C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvsvc32.exe
O23 - Service: PostgreSQL Database Server 8.0 (pgsql-8.0) - PostgreSQL Global Development Group - C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.0\bin\pg_ctl.exe
O23 - Service: PnkBstrA - Unknown owner - C:\WINDOWS\system32\PnkBstrA.exe
O23 - Service: ServiceLayer - Nokia. - C:\Program Files\Common Files\PCSuite\Services\ServiceLayer.exe

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This may not qualify as a virus/spyware problem any more, I really don't know, so apologies if I have posted in the wrong section. Please let me know if so and I'll post elsewhere.

I am out of ideas myself now. I can't find my XP Home CD and really don't want to do a format/reinstall anyhow. I do have an unused XP Professional CD with key here if that is of any use.
Many thanks for any help you can give me!

Rob
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