The new guy having jeeest a few problems

[brothercommabig]

Hi everyone...

Just joined the team - after battling that "allaboutsearching" crud a few months back on my work desktop computer, now I find casino pallazo on my home laptop. I thought I was safe with Zone alarm, ad-aware and spybot (all of these and my MS updates performed weekly) - obviously not. Dunno how I got infiltrated, but I did, and its scary - can't even remove the favorites it creatd

Now, the simple taks of downloading HJT is causing a "problem" for me. Probably indicative of my level of computer expertise (or lack thereof)...

Please help this downtrodden e-soul... I read the thread advising the 'halting' of any D/L accelerator programs (not running any to my knowledge) - so here's my boggle :dizzy: :

Using Winzip 8.0, I complete the D/L then try to extract file - I get this:

ERROR IN FILE #1: bad zip file offset (error local header signature not found)

Here's the log:

Extracting to "C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\"
Use Path: no Overlay Files: yes

warning [C:/TWEAK/hijackthis1977.zip]: extra 35 bytes at beginning or within Zip file (attempting to process anyway)

Error in file #1: bad Zip file offset (Error local header signature not found): 0

(attempting to re-compensate)

Error in file #1: bad Zip file offset (Error local header signature not found): 0

I never had issues with winzip - never. Do I have a virus? bacteria? Is it me? Someone help me please - at this point, I'm wouldn't be surprised if someone responds "Change your time of day 57 minutes ahead, do not eat lunch until 3 and hit control-F6 with your left hand on top of your head."

Sorry, but I am almost to the point of flinging these computers out the damn Windows (2K and XP). Sigh.............................

PS - I wrote a letter to Senator McCain (even though I'm not in his costituency) asking that he pass legislation to go after these illicit program which take control of your computer --- even had a few suggestions for sentencing (I'll spare you the gory details...)

Seriously - any help would be appreciated. I'd like to one day get back to playing my guitar :cool:.

[TJolly]

Go here and download hijack this:

http://tomcoyote.com/hjt/


Create a new folder on you hdd and name it HJT.

To do this go into My Computer and double click on your hdd then right click and select New then Folder and name it HJT.

Unzip HJT into the new folder. Launch HJT, click Scan, and click Save Log. Post the log in the Cyber Safety forum but don’t make any changes.

I’m not very good with HJT but a lot here are and someone will help you.

[degsy]

Welcome :)

Was the problem download from CyberTechHelp Download page?

[brothercommabig]

Thanks already TJolly.... got a working version of HJT... and yes degsy, the problem was D/Ling from CyberTechHelp D/L page....

As advised, I will post Log file in Cyber safety forum.... Thank you.

[degsy]

Sorry, it is a known problem with the script.
Hopefully it will be fixed soon.