So my PC has been running progressively slower and slower, and a few days ago, Internet Explorer started to work "intermittently"...meaning that sometimes it would hang when loading, I'd do an "End...

Seems to be doing great. Thanks so much Gerbil, I really appreciate you taking the time to help me out!

Tim

OK - looks like I was able to get rid of those O2 and O3 entries (and I followed your advice and got rid of the O15 entries while I was in the business) and then was able to delete that O23 service. ...

Shut down SpyBot and it worked in normal mode - here's the ComboFix log after running that script (though I just got a spybot message while writing this post - I shut it down and then opened up task...

OK - ComboFix worked in Safe Mode (seems like I should have thought of that). I'm pretty confident I only have one copy of ComboFix downloaded (I don't recall downloading multiple versions, and...

I copied that into notepad and saved it to my desktop as CFScript.txt, dragged it onto the ComboFix icon, said run and got an error that says:

"You cannot rename ComboFix as ComboFix

Please use...

VundoFix didn't find any infections - weird. My system also seems to be doing much better - I have not gotten the buffer overrun error in a couple of days, and (knock on wood) it's been a while...

Thanks for the help, Gerbil - I downloaded the new version of HiJack this, so I should be up to date when you ask for the log from it. Here's the results of ComboFix (and thanks for the tip on the...

OK - I keep getting the dreaded explorer buffer overrun message and Internet explorer periodically opens up new windows for me to all kinds of interesting sites, so it's pretty obvious I've managed...