Trojan from clan page with screenshots

Just thought I may be able to provide some help to the technical support staff by posting this here (assuming someone higher up sees it). I tried submitting a ticket with this, but of course the web support is down so that didn't work.




This is almost the exact problem I'm having, go to this thread to see:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=82254.0
I'm not doing the solution there because my situation is slightly different, and I could mess up my computer if I try it and it was wrong.



I got a trojan from the clan page. You can see that from this screenshot:

webpagehistory.png


Originally I couldn't open up my antivirus (Microsoft Security Essentials) because the trojan/virus disabled it and kept it closed. I did scans with the updated version of malwarebytes, microsoft safety scan and nod32 online scanner:

http://www.eset.com/us/online-scanner/
http://www.malwarebytes.org/
http://www.microsoft.com/security/sc...s/default.aspx

After deleting viruses then redeleting them (they just kept coming back), I restored my computer to 3 days ago, and microsoft security essentials started running again.

I did a scan with it, and it picked up a bunch of viruses and 1 trojan. The viruses were named:
virus:win32/Ramnit.AF
and the trojan was named:
Trojan:winNT/Ramnit.gen!A


I kept deleting the viruses and their locations seemed random, however the trojan was located at:
"C:\Users\basement\AppData\Local\Temp\<randomLette rsHere>.sys"
I know the letters were random based off the thread I quoted above:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=82254.0


I removed my scan history and then I tried running the scan again. Before this point the "action taken" in microsoft security essentials against the viruses was "allowed", and I couldn't change it to quarantined or deleted. I'm not sure when, but at some point it changed to quarantined, but that was after I couldn't find the trojan anymore, just the viruses (the trojan wasn't popping up in the history anymore).

This is the trojan:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/po...2FRamnit.gen!A


I tried navigating to it in CMD, however when I got to the Temp folder in "C:\Users\basement\AppData\Local\Temp\<randomLette rsHere>.sys" and did a listing of the files, it didn't show up. I also tried navigating to it using the user interface, but I the furthest I get is "C:\Users\basement". AppData isn't in there in the user interface, but it is in CMD, which leads me to believe it's hidden, and I'm unsure how to unhide it in windows, plus even if I did I'm not sure if I would find the trojan.


Here's the screenshot of the history in microsoft security essentials:

historyf.png


It should also be noted that I'm using version 5.0 of firefox (9.0 is the newest), because my brother wants to use an addon that doesn't work in the newer versions. I'll update it after this, and that may be the reason that I got the virus from the clan page.

Near the beginning of this mess, I tried running firefox and then it would crash after about 5 seconds of being open. To correct this issue I had to run firefox in safemode, and then I could use it. I'm currently using firefox not on safemode and still have version 5.0.



I want this fixed, and I've done all that I can, short of formatting the harddrive.

If more information is required, just ask.

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