strange little buttons next to my desktop icons

Hi and welcome to the forums


Best option is to follow our standard cleaning procedures which are necessary for us to provide you support. Also there are steps included for installing, running, and posting HijackThis logs as attachments.

• Run ALL the steps in this Sticky thread READ & RUN ME FIRST Before Asking for Support
• Make sure you check version numbers and get all updates.
• Very Important: Make sure you tell us the results from running the tutorial...was anything found? Were you unable to complete any of the scans?...Were you unable to download any of the tools?...Did you do the on-line scans as suggested? etc.

• After doing ALL of the above you still have a problem make sure you have booted to normal mode and run the steps in the below link to properly use HijackThis and attach a log:

Downloading, Installing, and Running HijackThis

Make sure you also rename HijackThis.exe as suggested in the procedures. Use analyse.exe for the new name. This is very important due to some new infections going around.

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• When you return to make your next post, make sure you attach the following logs and that you have run these scans in the following order too:
  • CounterSpy
  • AVG Antispyware log - ONLY IF NEEDED you were not able to run CounterSpy
  • Bitdefender - from step 6
  • Panda Scan - from step 6
  • runkeys.txt - the log from GetRunKey.bat
  • newfiles.txt - the log from ShowNew.bat
  • HijackThis

NOTE: You can only attach 3 files in a single message so it will require that you use two messages to attach all of these logs!

 

You attach a log from CounterSpy as requested! Right now your problems are not looking like malware.

Is your copy of Spyware Doctor a paid or free trial version?

You do need to do the following to get the proper Sun Java installed (this was requested in step 6 of the READ ME).

Uninstall the below old versions of software:
J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 11
J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 3
Java 2 Runtime Environment, SE v1.4.2_03

Make sure you reboot after uninstalling the above!

After reboot, now install the current version of Sun Java from: Sun Java Runtime Environment


Also do you know what the two below files are that are wasting almost 3 GB of disk space:

Code:

"C:\"
25a.tmp       Apr  7 2007  1409417728  "25A.tmp"
3dd.tmp       Apr  7 2007  1409417728  "3DD.tmp"

Now Run HijackThis and select the following lines but DO NOT CLICK FIX until you exit all browser sessions including the one you are reading in right now:
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {02478D38-C3F9-4efb-9B51-7695ECA05670} - (no file)
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {7E853D72-626A-48EC-A868-BA8D5E23E045} - (no file)
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [MSConfig] C:\WINDOWS\PCHealth\HelpCtr\Binaries\MSConfig.exe /auto

After clicking Fix, exit HJT.

Now reboot and attach new logs from :

• ShowNew (get the new version just released first)
• HJT
• also don't forget the CounterSpy log

 

Uninstall CounterSpy now if still installed! Also uninstall the free version of Spyware Doctor you have installed? Also uninstall Viewpoint Media Player

Do the above before continuing.

You will now need to attach new logs from GetRunKey, ShowNew, and HJT. Make sure you download the new version of ShowNew that was just updated again before getting a new log.

You can use FastStone Capture 5.3 - get it here http://www.faststone.org/

If the image is too large to upload, you may need to scale it. You can do that with the below utility or you could just cut a smaller box out of your desktop with Fastone Capture

FastStone Image Viewer

 

Note that you did not redo step 2 of the READ ME which is evident from you GetRunKey log; however, I'm not sure you should bother. I fail to see any problems in what you are posting. The left most snapshot of your Desktop is normal. Arrows to the lower left side just indicate that the icon represents a shortcut to the program.

Also I see no problems in the othe snapshots. Everything is normal!

 

As long as everything is working properly, you are probably OK! If Norton popups up again, get more exact detail information and give it to us. A log would be good but some tools are terrible as far as providing detail logs or any logs at all.


If you are not having any other malware problems, it is time to do our final steps:

1. If we used Pocket Killbox during your cleanup, do the below
   • Run Pocket Killbox and select File, Cleanup, Delete All Backups
2. If we used ComboFix you can delete the ComboFix.exe file and associated C:\combofix.txt log that was created.
3. If we user SDFix you can delete all the SDFix related files and folders from your Desktop or whereever you installed it.
4. If we used VundoFix, you can delete the VundoFix.exe file and the C:\VundoFix Backups folder and C:\vundofix.txt log that was created.
5. If we had your run FixWareOut, you can delete the Fixwareout.exe file and the C:\fixwareout folder.
6. If we had you run Avenger, you can delete all files related to Avenger now.
7. If we had you download any registry patches like fixme.reg or fixWLK.reg (or any others), you can delete these files now.
8. You can delete the ShowNew.Zip and GetRunkey.Zip files and the files that you extracted from the ZIP files. You can also delete the C:\newfiles.txt and C:\runkeys.txt logs that were created
9. If you are running Windows XP or Windows ME, do the below:
   • go back to step 8 of the READ & RUN ME to Disable System Restore which will flush your Restore Points.
   • Then reboot and Enable System Restore to create a new clean Restore Point.
10. After doing the above, you should work thru the below link:
    • How to Protect yourself from malware!