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===Download this temp file cleaner from http://www.atribune.org/ccount/click.php?id=1
--click in the download window to run it, and when ATF Cleaner opens go Select all, and then Empty Selected.
Next click Firefox at the top, Select All again, and Empty Selected again.
Close ATF.
===Get Adaware SE Personal from http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
- install it. Update it. Explore what settings you can change in it [via the cogwheel icon up top, if you are comfortable with that... you won't hurt anything, but for the present please keep the default settings]. Put an icon on your desktop for regular use.
===GET AVG antispyware 7.5 here.. http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/lng/us/tpl/v5 -the link is almost at the bottom of the page , avgas 7.5.0.50. Install it and update it.
===Restart your computer in Safe Mode:- press F8 several times while POST is running and before IDE detection completes.
- On the Windows Advanced Options Menu, select Safe Mode and press Enter.
- When the Boot Menu appears again, select Microsoft Windows XP and press Enter.
- Log in by using the your account if an admin type, or Administrator account and password. NOTE: The password is blank by default unless you set a password.
Run Adaware, doing a full system scan and finally remove all that it finds [rclick in the scan results window and select all, go next..]. If Adaware finds anything apart from cookies or your MRU list then, after removing those items you should repeat the scan [and removal] and so on until it comes up clean.
Start AVG a-s 7.5; under Scanner/ Settings set Recommended actions to Quarantine, and run the scan. Save the log file and only then click Apply all actions. Post the log file.
Reboot to normal mode.
===Next try an online scan at panda:- http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan?
-the link to the scan is just above the padlock pic.... free online virus scan.. enter a valid? email and follow through, choosing My Computer for a full system scan.
Post the log it produces here, along with a fresh Hijackthis log.