12-13-2014, 07:10 PM
Have a current problem with HitmanPro.Alert2. As of yesterday I received a message from HitmanPro.Alert2 that read: "Computer Virus "Dropbox.exe" is attacking your personal files., etc.". I then via this alert box downloaded (free) version of Hitman Pro and ran it. It picked up a hyjacker virus plus Conduit and Playtopus junk. I believe the hyjacker program caused the alert and the Conduit and Playtopus junk just was causing the computer to run slowly. I then restarted the computer, got the same message from HitManPro.alert2 and thus reran the scan and came up clean. However the computer really is running very fast, which I believe is the cleaning up of Conduit and Playtopus.
I next googled issues with Dropbox and saw that certain viruses do use this and thus followed the following processes to try and correct the issue.
1. Booted up in Safe Mode with Networking
2. Ran Malwarebytes - ran clean, no issues
3. Ran TDSSKiller - ran clean, no issues
4. Ran CCleaner for file cleanup and Registry - small amout of cleanup
5. Ran ADWCleaner - small amount of cleanup.
Now restarted the computer. Same Pop-up Window from HitmanPro.alert2 - this message comes once DropBox initiates from StartUp. I want DropBox in startup and have had it there for months with no issue.
I believe the computer is clean as it is really running very fast. I do not know if the problem is from DropBox or HitManPro.alert2 or some other virus that is hidden. I ran TDSSKiller to see if a hidden rootkit was buried, but as stated above it ran clean.
I also think the initial alert was valid, and the following alerts are not valid. Again, the Pop-up alert comes right after DropBox initiates.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Chuck Devlin (user id: cfdevlin01)
I next googled issues with Dropbox and saw that certain viruses do use this and thus followed the following processes to try and correct the issue.
1. Booted up in Safe Mode with Networking
2. Ran Malwarebytes - ran clean, no issues
3. Ran TDSSKiller - ran clean, no issues
4. Ran CCleaner for file cleanup and Registry - small amout of cleanup
5. Ran ADWCleaner - small amount of cleanup.
Now restarted the computer. Same Pop-up Window from HitmanPro.alert2 - this message comes once DropBox initiates from StartUp. I want DropBox in startup and have had it there for months with no issue.
I believe the computer is clean as it is really running very fast. I do not know if the problem is from DropBox or HitManPro.alert2 or some other virus that is hidden. I ran TDSSKiller to see if a hidden rootkit was buried, but as stated above it ran clean.
I also think the initial alert was valid, and the following alerts are not valid. Again, the Pop-up alert comes right after DropBox initiates.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Chuck Devlin (user id: cfdevlin01)