Access Denied: Persistent virus/malware .exe(s). Cannot get rid of these!

[John Starbinger]

On November 7th I made a poor decision against my better judgement and installed a shady "cheat trainer" for a game. It was soon apparent that it was a virus/malware with multiple components, opening up prompts and random foreign web pages. So I acted fast and started deleting what I could. Did 2 full system scans after that with Windows Defender and Malwarebytes, that seemed to get rid of almost everything. And the symptoms are mostly gone now too. However, it seems that a set of processes have lingered.

They're set to auto-run and do whatever they were designed to do in the background, but I suspect that they are intended to work with components that were scanned and deleted. I've tried killing the processes in CMD, Powershell, and 3 different task manager programs, but I always get "access denied" even after altering the permissions so that I have full control. I've included some screenshots of the .exe's in question.

Multiple instances of 'raaigkb.exe' continually open up in the background (I can only tell by looking in the task manager) and close randomly. These spike the CPU usage up to 15%. So I definitely need this garbage off of my PC!

I've searched for these processes and google search turns up zero results for all them, so I know something isn't right here.

Any help on how to nuke these from my PC will be greatly appreciated!

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[scout_03]

the best option to get rid of this is a full format ad reinstall .

 

[John Starbinger]

the best option to get rid of this is a full format ad reinstall .

That's certainly the very last resort option. I'm looking for a much easier solution than that lol. My PC still runs fine. I'm sure there's a better solution.

 

[why_wolf]

The best solution is always to nuke it from orbit and do a full reinstall. It is the only way to be sure.

Frankly whenever I encounter an infection I don't even bother trying to find a way to remove the virus I just jump straight to reinstall.

 

[R_1]

Boot to a USB drive with linux on it. grab a USB drive, a copy of rufus and a linux distribution.
http://distrowatch.com/ has tons of differing linux distributions and download links. I personally an fond of linux mint with cinnamon.
https://rufus.akeo.ie/ the utility used to extract the ISO file to the USB drive.

use rufus to extract the selected ISO to the tunmb drive. it will make the drive bootable and you can run linux from the drive once done.
Reboot into linux and proceed to test the hardware. connect to internet, watch videos, await problems.
if linux is good and stable the issue is most likely inside windows or otherwise software related.
this is a test of the hardware.

DO NOT make the thumb drive on the system to be cleaned. use a known secure system to prepare the USB drive and download the files

linux does not care for any windows file permissions. you have the location of the files, write them down and the file names. boot into linux and open the file manager. browse to the folders and delete what you need to.
reboot and scan the system with your favorite scanner, I like the eset single test. do not rely on it to clean the files, note the location of the files reboot to linux and kill them.

 

[John Starbinger]

Boot to a USB drive with linux on it. grab a USB drive, a copy of rufus and a linux distribution.
http://distrowatch.com/ has tons of differing linux distributions and download links. I personally an fond of linux mint with cinnamon.
https://rufus.akeo.ie/ the utility used to extract the ISO file to the USB drive.

use rufus to extract the selected ISO to the tunmb drive. it will make the drive bootable and you can run linux from the drive once done.
Reboot into linux and proceed to test the hardware. connect to internet, watch videos, await problems.
if linux is good and stable the issue is most likely inside windows or otherwise software related.
this is a test of the hardware.

DO NOT make the thumb drive on the system to be cleaned. use a known secure system to prepare the USB drive and download the files

linux does not care for any windows file permissions. you have the location of the files, write them down and the file names. boot into linux and open the file manager. browse to the folders and delete what you need to.
reboot and scan the system with your favorite scanner, I like the eset single test. do not rely on it to clean the files, note the location of the files reboot to linux and kill them.

I like this idea! This will be my first time using Linux. About to try right now.