BleepingComputer.com: ComboFix Problem Encountered

Hello. First off thank you for spending your time reading this thread.

My home computer was experiencing some issues with malware. I searched around on Google and came to MajorGeeks.com(Sorry if I'm not allowed to post a link to another website). They had a pinned guide on how to clean up your Windows XP computer. I have followed that guide. The guide has informed me to run CCleaner, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, SUPERAntiSpyware and ComboFix.

I greatfuly regret running ComboFix. Like others, I disregarded the warnings and caution I should of taken when using this tool. CF has been running for almost an hour now. It has downloaded and installed the Micorsoft Recovery Console and created a System Restore Point. It then went on to scan my computer. It has been on the same screen for almost 40 minutes now. The screen consists of two messages.

(As best as I can remember)

 "The scan should take no longer then 10 minutes".
 "Although in some cases, the scan time can easily double depending on how badly the computer is infected".

No other messages have come up on the ComboFix screen. I have no clue what my next step should be and I am looking for help.

All help is greatly appreciated. Again, I am sorry I disregarded all of the warnings and I should not have ran this without proper help.

If any other information is need I will gladly post it if I can.

The best thing would be to just aboard the scan. If you need more help with that, please let me know.

If you need help with malware removal, please follow this guide.

elise025, on Aug 10 2010, 02:36 AM, said:

Thank you for the response. How should I abort? Clicking on the X to close the command prompt window doesn't do anything. Everything else is disabled.

Thanks.

Try alt-ctrl-del to access the Taskmanager and look for processes with a .cfxxe extension.

elise025, on Aug 10 2010, 08:42 AM, said:

Task Manager is disabled.

I was luckily able to turn off my PC by holding down the power button. This did not effect my computer in any way, I think the scan for ComboFix never started, so it was just sitting there idle with everything disabled.

Its possible it did something, its not the first time I hear about this issue by certain infections.

Please let me know if you need any more help here.

Hello, are you still there?