The "red circle with a white x" is the signature symptom of the Antivirus Gold/SpySheriff/Smitfraud group of infections. Your HJT log indicates a couple of other infections as well.
Your log also shows no signs of an anti-virus program running. If you really don't have an A-V program, download and install the free edition of AVG anti-virus now.
Next, please do the following:
You will need to close/quit all web browser programs and disconnect from the Internet for the following, so you should print out these instructions or save them into a text file with Notepad.
1. Download and install these utilities (but do not run scans with them yet):
ewido Security Suite (trial version) - http://www.ewido.net/en/download/
Microsoft Anti-Spyware beta - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...&displaylang=en
Ad Aware SE Personal - http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
SpyBot Search & Destroy - http://www.safer-networking.org/
- Open ewido. In the main screen, click "Update" and click "Start Update". After the update process completes, exit from Ewido.
- Open MS Antispyware beta. Make sure the "AntiSpyware Autoupdater" feature is enabled, and that it has downloaded the most current antispyware updates. Close the program after you've verified this.
- Open SpyBot and use its update feature to download and install the most current spyware definitions file. Close the program once the update is complete.
- Open AdAware, click the "Check for updates now" button, and follow the prompts to install the most current spyware definition database. Close the program once the update is complete.
- Open AVG and use its Update feature to make sure that you have the most current virus definitions installed. As with the above programs, don't run a scan with it; just close it once it is updated.
3. Download and install the CCleaner utility, but don't run it yet.
4. Run HijackTHis again, put a check mark next to the following entries, and then click the "Fix checked" button. Close HJT once it has finished performing its fixes:
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Page = about:blank
R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page =
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Page_URL = about:blank
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Search_URL = about:blank
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Page = about:blank
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page =
R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Local Page = about:blank
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Local Page = about:blank
F3 - REG:win.ini: run=C:\WINDOWS\inet20099\winlogon.exe
O2 - BHO: C:\WINDOWS\system32\st3.dll - {1B68470C-2DEF-493B-8A4A-8E2D81BE4EA5} - C:\WINDOWS\system32\st3.dll
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {5321E378-FFAD-4999-8C62-03CA8155F0B3} - (no file)
O2 - BHO: C:\WINDOWS\adsldpbe.dll - {7507739F-BC2E-4DC3-B233-816783C25DC9} - C:\WINDOWS\adsldpbe.dll
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [xp_system] C:\WINDOWS\inet20099\winlogon.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Microsoft standard protector] C:\WINDOWS\inet20099\socks.exe 20099
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [xp_system] C:\WINDOWS\inet20099\winlogon.exe
O20 - Winlogon Notify: st3 - C:\WINDOWS\system32\st3.dll
5. Reboot into Safe Mode (you get to the safe mode boot option by hitting the F8 key as your computer is starting up).
6. Run CleanUP! It may take a while for the program to perform its cleaning, so be patient. Close the program when it has finished.
7. Run AVG, SpyBot, ewido, AdAware, and MS Antispyware beta consecutively; have the programs fix all malicious items they find.
When ewido finds the first malicious object on your system, it will ask you if it should clean it. When it asks this, put a checkmark in the lower left corner of the box that says "Perform action on all infections", then choose clean and click OK.
Save the log file that ewido will create after it finishes scanning; you'll be including that log in your next post here.
8. Open Windows Explorer, and in the Folder Options->View settings under the Tools menu, select "show hidden files and folders", and uncheck "Hide protected operating system files" and "Hide extentions for known file types".
- Locate and delete the following files (some of these should already have been deleted by the removal utilities):
C:\WINDOWS\system32\st3.dll
C:\WINDOWS\adsldpbe.dll
- Delete the following folder entirely:
C:\WINDOWS\inet20099
9. Empty your Recycle Bin, reboot normally, run HijackThis again, and post the new log. Also post the log that ewido generated.
