Greetings and thank you in advance for any/all assistance you can provide.
I may not yet be providing all the detail I can but will certainly add any additional detail required (as instructed).
So, I have my father in law's PC. I believe it is infected with virus / malware /etc. I think they clicked on a link in an email they shouldn't of but can't really be sure.
Symptoms:
First symptom I noticed is that I cannot connect the PC (Windows 7) to the Internet, either wirelessly or using an Ethernet cable to my wireless router. The "network" tray icon is greyed with a red X. When I select "Troubleshoot problems", I get the following results:
Windows could not automatically detect this network's proxy settings.
I have currently tried/executed the following:
1). Ran Malwarebytes which was already installed on this PC. ALthough I couldn't update the DB, it tagged multiple occurrences of "MindSpark" related items as issues, which I successfully quarantined. When I currently run Malwarebytes, I got "No issues found"
2) Ran Avast! scan - I attempted to run the Avast scan but was unsuccessful as the application would not loaded. The only error I got was a small popup windows with an exclamation point with the avastui header.
3) Ran Malwarebytes Rootkit Scanner - Again, not able to update the scanner but this scan returned "No Issues".
At this point - nothing had changed - still couldn't access the internet. But did also notice the following:
1) Upon a reboot, noticed the following message on the icon tray:
Failed to Connect to a Windows Service: Windows could not connect to the System Event Noticiation Service service. This problem prevents standard users from logging on to the system. As an administrative user, you can review the system Event log for details about why the service didn't respond.
Note: When I attempted to bring up the Event Viewer, I got the following message: Event Log Service is unavailable. Verify that the service is running.
At this point, I attempted to do a system restore to a previous operational point. This was unsuccessful.
Additional notes:
1) Looking at the Process tab in Task Manager, notice the following entries
dllhost.exe user COM Surrogate
dllhost.exe *32 system COM Surrogate
No idea if that is an issue but thought I'd include.
So, I at the end of my very limited ability to figure out what is going on.
Appreciate any/all help you can provide.
Many thanks in advance!!
I may not yet be providing all the detail I can but will certainly add any additional detail required (as instructed).
So, I have my father in law's PC. I believe it is infected with virus / malware /etc. I think they clicked on a link in an email they shouldn't of but can't really be sure.
Symptoms:
First symptom I noticed is that I cannot connect the PC (Windows 7) to the Internet, either wirelessly or using an Ethernet cable to my wireless router. The "network" tray icon is greyed with a red X. When I select "Troubleshoot problems", I get the following results:
Windows could not automatically detect this network's proxy settings.
I have currently tried/executed the following:
1). Ran Malwarebytes which was already installed on this PC. ALthough I couldn't update the DB, it tagged multiple occurrences of "MindSpark" related items as issues, which I successfully quarantined. When I currently run Malwarebytes, I got "No issues found"
2) Ran Avast! scan - I attempted to run the Avast scan but was unsuccessful as the application would not loaded. The only error I got was a small popup windows with an exclamation point with the avastui header.
3) Ran Malwarebytes Rootkit Scanner - Again, not able to update the scanner but this scan returned "No Issues".
At this point - nothing had changed - still couldn't access the internet. But did also notice the following:
1) Upon a reboot, noticed the following message on the icon tray:
Failed to Connect to a Windows Service: Windows could not connect to the System Event Noticiation Service service. This problem prevents standard users from logging on to the system. As an administrative user, you can review the system Event log for details about why the service didn't respond.
Note: When I attempted to bring up the Event Viewer, I got the following message: Event Log Service is unavailable. Verify that the service is running.
At this point, I attempted to do a system restore to a previous operational point. This was unsuccessful.
Additional notes:
1) Looking at the Process tab in Task Manager, notice the following entries
dllhost.exe user COM Surrogate
dllhost.exe *32 system COM Surrogate
No idea if that is an issue but thought I'd include.
So, I at the end of my very limited ability to figure out what is going on.
Appreciate any/all help you can provide.
Many thanks in advance!!