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Pieter_Arntz
September 26th, 2004, 02:58 PM
A few variants of this hijacker are active:

Log examples:

R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://www.makemesearch.com/?said=126
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://www.makemesearch.com/?said=126

O2 - BHO: Tubby - {9EAC0102-5E61-2312-BC2D-4D54434D5443} - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MTC.DLL

O3 - Toolbar: Search Toolbar - {9EAC0102-5E61-2312-BC2D-4D54434D5443} - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MTC.DLL

Known variants:
{CLSID} filename
{9EAC0102-5E61-2312-BC2D-4D54434D5443} mtc.dll
{9EAC0102-5E61-2312-BC2D-444C4C4F5552} DLL.dll
{9EAC0102-5E61-2312-BC2D-414456544F4E} ADV.dll
{9EAC0102-5E61-2312-BC2D-4E4153202020} NAS.dll

Remove Search Toolbar under Add/Remove Software and fix the entries in the HijackThis log.

Special credits to Zupe

Pieter_Arntz
October 4th, 2004, 01:24 PM
New variant reported by Tony Klein:

O2 - BHO: Tubby - {9EAC0102-5E61-2312-BC2D-544243544243} - C:\WINDOWS\System32\TBC.dll
O3 - Toolbar: Search Toolbar - {9EAC0102-5E61-2312-BC2D-544243544243} - C:\WINDOWS\System32\TBC.dll

Pieter_Arntz
October 29th, 2004, 03:02 PM
Found another one:

O2 - BHO: Tubby - {9EAC0102-5E61-2312-BC2D-76746C56544C} - C:\WINDOWS\System32\vtlbar1.dll

O3 - Toolbar: Search Toolbar - {9EAC0102-5E61-2312-BC2D-76746C56544C} - C:\WINDOWS\System32\vtlbar1.dll