BleepingComputer.com: Fast Find Answers Ad Virus and BOO/TDSS.M

Hello,

This morning I was using my PC and everything was just fine. I returned home from work about 3 hours later, and upon login the PC bluescreened. After a reboot and another login I was able to access my desktop, however MSSE was disabled. My browser was being redirected to many annoying obivously fake sites, most notably 'Fast Find Answers.com' when using Google. When I tried to turn it back on, I got an error saying "The specified service does not exist as an installed service." Huh.

I rebooted in safe mode and ran a scan with MBAM, which picked up two trojans whose removal didn't seem to do anything. Spyware Doctor picked up something like 80 infections, but wouldn't let me remove any without paying for it. As I'm a broke college student, I'd like to see if there were any other steps before I paid for anything. A friend recommended scanning with Avira, which picked up several instances of 'TR/Fake.Rean.AC [trojan]' along with 'BOO/TDss.M'. I'm now running a full Avira scan

I just tried using the Kaspersky TDSS Killer, which found and cured the following: '\Device\Harddisk0\DR0 (Rootkit.Win32.TDSS.tdl4)'

I now I probably did a bunch of this out of order. The Avira scan is still not finished, and I sort of wanted to wait to see if it found anything else before letting the PC reboot to complete the Kaspersky program. Where do I go from here? Help is super appreciated! Let me know if you need any more info.

Thanks!

This post has been edited by objurium: 31 August 2011 - 06:27 PM

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