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Hi there,

I'm new to this forum, so please excuse me if I have posted this in the wrong sub-forum, but this is the one I thought would fit best!

I seem to have a virus or spyware that created duplicate icons of things such as IE, Outlook Express, Winamp and Media Player on my toolbar.. I tried deleting them but it doesn't seem to work.. It seems like every couple of days it creates more of them labelled under "quick launch" on the toolbar, and at the moment I have so many duplicate ones I can only fit about three of my active windows that are open...

I have updated and performed a full scan with Microsoft Antispyware and AVG but it only found one thing and had supposedly cleaned it but everytime I restart the problem is still there..

I would really appreciate any ideas or programs I should install and scan with in order to know what I'm dealing with!

Thanks very much

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Hi Sharon, welcome to DaniWeb :D

Please follow the suggestions in these threads:

http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread27519.html

http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread27570.html

Get the self-extracting version of HijackThis from here (in line 2):
http://www.malwareremoval.com/downloads.html

Then close any open browser windows, 'Scan and Save Log' with hijackthis, copy the log, and paste it in this thread.

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