Win64 Rootkit now with missing services!

[Eric P]

This evening my computer threw up some random warnings about my computer not being protected.  Windows Security Essentials and Firewall were both disabled and Peer Guardian were all failing to load.  I got WSE uninstalled and reinstalled and it found hella trojans on my machine (really obnoxious as I consider myself a safe and informed internet user).  I got those cleaned up, installed Malware Bytes and did another full scan and nothing else has been found but now the services that power the firewall are all missing.

I did the stuff suggested at this link

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-security/error-code-0x80070424-with-windows-firewall/ec3fc3b8-69ec-4b4b-a703-4b745fe6e8ee

but I still can't get the firewall to start.  I go to the dependencies and rather than listing the stuff needed to get the firewall service to run, i get a blank screen and a pop up error that says Win32 The specified Module Could not be found.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

[Tasty]

This is going to sound incredibly freetarded but here goes.

Last week I updated uTorrent as I posted in the bitch about GAF thread, and it installed a bunch of malware. Not even like spamware, actual malevolent software. Luckily my work had been meaning to upgrade my laptop to Ubuntu so I just did that on Monday.

Ubuntu by default kinda sucks, but Gnome Shell makes it much better. Love this thing now and I don't have to worry about that virus crap anymore.

Gaming though... I want my suped up HTPC to be Linux, it'll run Dolphin well enough, but not normal PC games...

Anyways my advice would be to install Linux if you don't PC game, otherwise... backup your important files and reinstall Windows. The really nasty stuff will never really be gone. Even after running full scans with both Security Essentials and CCleaner that crap wasn't completely deleted.

[Eric P]

Yeah. Said fuck it and went ahead and set it to format and reinstall.

[ManaByte]

[chronovore]

Yeah. Said fuck it and went ahead and set it to format and reinstall.

[Great Rumbler]

Yeah. Said fuck it and went ahead and set it to format and reinstall.

I've been there before, more than once.

[Phoenix Dark]

Yeah. Said fuck it and went ahead and set it to format and reinstall.

I've been there before, more than once.

I know that feel as well. Usually I wait days before doing it though, and try to fight the good fight as long as possible by Malwarebyes, MSE, Super Anti Spyware, etc. But sometimes you gotta let it go  :'(

[Eric P]

Yeah. Said fuck it and went ahead and set it to format and reinstall.

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Can't tell if this means I choose wisely or poorly.

Thankfully I just use my main drive for games and os, so I didn't lose any media or documents, just some time.

[demi]

Well it's too late to ask but did you run TDSSKiller? It gets to stuff that MBAM doesn't even touch.

[Eric P]

I didn't. 

[fistfulofmetal]

i didn't even see this thread. if i had i would have suggested running tdsskiller or even grabbing a hacked copy of hitman pro to run a scan. for a rootkit normal anti-virus/antispyware just isn't going to work.

format works though!!

[chronovore]

Yeah. Said fuck it and went ahead and set it to format and reinstall.

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Can't tell if this means I choose wisely or poorly.

Thankfully I just use my main drive for games and os, so I didn't lose any media or documents, just some time.

It's a "you chose wisely" scene -- "poorly" would have been of the guy dying. ;-)