Please help with malware-infection!

Discussion in 'Malware Help - MG (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by nille12, Dec 13, 2005.

  1. nille12

    nille12 Private E-2

    My computer has become very slow lately, and it has changed the look of some icons in the "messenger-field" (bottom-right on the screen).

    Also, when I minimize some active windows they end up in the "message-field", and not in the "activity-field" as before.

    I must be infected, but I don't know by what. I've run all the scans & tools in the "read & run me first"-list. (In both safe and normal mode.)

    Panda ActiveScan detected adware "secure32" at location C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and TrendMicro detected & deleted something called CWS_SE.-50000.

    All other tests were clean!

    I'm no expert on computers and I don't know what else to do, I would really appreciate some expert help. I've attached my HJT-file, in which I can't find anything...
     

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  2. nille12

    nille12 Private E-2

    Please help with malware-infection! (clarification!)

    Hi, me again.

    To clarify: by "message-field" I mean the system tray, of course.
    And by "activity-field" I mean the taskbar. (Sorry about this.)

    When I right-click on the icons in the taskbar that have changed how they look I only get the options "open" & "exit".
    If I choose "open" nothing att all seems to happen. If I choose "exit" the icon just disappears.
    If I left-click on the changed icon it opens up the program it represents, as normally would do before the icon had changed the way it look.
     
  3. nille12

    nille12 Private E-2

    Please help with malware-infection! (clarification 2!)

    Sorry, it's early in the morning. Ignore my last clarification, it should read:

    To clarify: by "message-field" I mean the system tray, of course.
    And by "activity-field" I mean the taskbar. (Sorry about this.)

    When I right-click on the icons in the SYSTEM TRAY that have changed how they look I only get the options "open " & "exit".
    If I choose "open" nothing at all seems to happen. If I choose "exit" the icon just disappears.
    If I left-click on the changed icon it opens up the program it represents, as it normally would do before the icon had changed the way it looks.
     

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