Does this sound familiar?

I seem to be having a problem, on a computer I just built, I installed everything and just as I was getting around to putting some protection on it. The computer got infected with a spy ware program called brave sentry. It totally ruined everything.

Anyways , so I format again, and everything seems fine, but I have this strange problem that when I leave my computer on and leave. I come back and there are like 76 firefox programs running. And if you sit there and watch it, it will automatically open a new one every couple of minutes.

So long as you are using the computer and moving the mouse it doesn’t happen.

Is there a virus or a script that this sounds like, Has any one ever heard of this ? please help

thanks guys

 

There are MANY!!!

- Please run ALL the steps in this Sticky thread READ & RUN ME FIRST Before Asking for Support

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• Bitdefender
• Panda Scan
• HijackThis

Good Luck!

 

Please visit the malware removal thread, and follow all the instructions there. This will leave you with a clean system, and an excellent, redundant (and best of all, FREE) defense against spyware and viruses. I have to agree with you; this does sound malware-ish. Is there any URL that firefox is being directed to?

Edit: yup, what matt said!

 

@ MM HAH! I won this time

 

Your post looks copy and pasted

 

... I prefer the term: 'Pre-prepared for optimum advisory help'

 

Do I ewally have to download all those files to have a clean system ? That might take up too many of my resources..


isnt there a list of the better ones i can download?

 

The files arn't really that large, and they ARE the best ones

What part of 'system resources' are you worried about. What OS are you running, give me a few details of your system.