Ai Yi Yi - Something is Fishy Indeed - Please Help!

Hello,

I have two a Vista and XP box at home, and an XP laptop here at work. The two at home are networked.

Yesterday I noticed for the second time in two days on my Vista box that Google Desktop had been downloaded without my knowledge.

Last night Firefox stopped connecting at all on the home XP box. Now this morning, on my XP laptop, Firefox stopped connecting as well. IE 6 was ok. I upgraded to IE 7 to have tabbed browsing, but then that stopped conecting as well. (Opera works fine.)

I also noticed that neither AVG or AdAware can connect to update themselves.

I went through the steps from trying to eyeball naughty software through downloading and running the various apps, and I appreciate the time someone put into making that protocol. Trouble is, I'm still having the same problems. I've attached the Hijack log, AVG AntiSpyware Log, and MBlogs.zip files.

Oh man, I really appreciate any help, I'm in a bad way.

Thanks!

Paul

 

Hi,

Hey, thank you for responding, and I apologize that I didn't follow the instructions more carefully. (quite harried.)

I have now:

-Uninstalled JAVA, rebooted, and installed the new one
-Cleaned up the desktop
-Attached the Combo log text

Yes, I know that Google Desktop isn't malware, and I've seen many instances of it being part of a daisy chain of installation options with other software. The reason I mentioned it is that I hadn't installed anything recently, so it was a bit surprising to see it show up twice in a row unbidden.

I've restarted again for good measure, run a Microsoft Malware detector (which didn't find anything) and am still having the same problems.

Paul