Hello,
I am not the resident virus expert for Windows here, but can tell that you will need to let the group know if Shredder gave you any specific warning messages. Those are handy for the fine folk here who help debug these things.
Also, this is a great time to make sure you have backups. You are at a point here that your box may get worse, and you may have to re-install, and backups will be most critical of that process. Get your data safe now, and setup a plan to keep it safe after your box is fixed.
Finally, if you are registry-savvy, you can go into the registry, and look at the startup items. See if there are things starting at boot time that you do not need. IF you have questions on a particular file, do a Google search on the file, and see what others have to say. Beware... there are a few things that are named quite weird, but belong in that area of the registry.
Enjoy,
Christian
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1. I found a I found a file (folder) named Temp-Installtemped...Which is it, afile or a folder?
2. If it is a folder, what are the names of the files within the folder?
3. Regardless of whether it's a file or folder, within what folder did you find it (C:\, C:\Windows, C:\Program Files, etc.)?
4. Go ahead and post a HijackThis log for us to review; it might yield some clues.
DMR
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What? Wasting our time by posting a log??
Haven't you heard? We live for HJT logs. Eat 'em for breakfast, lunch, and dinner; sometimes have 'em for midnight snacks, too. :mrgreen:
Well, OK... that might be a bit extreme, but shoot us a log if you want- we'll give it a review for you.
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You can find links to a few free firewall programs in this post .
I don't really have a recommendation for a pop-up blocker, as Firefox's built-in blocker does a good enough job for me.
DMR
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... IE gives me so much trouble, still, when it loads, it wants to go to a strange place: Lycos.
If you want to run HijackThis again and post the new log, that might tell us where some of the strange IE behaviour is coming from.
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