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Well the only potential malware related item is the popups. In a week a lot can change on a PC. In fact even in one night a lot can change. Get me the below logs:

• GetRunKey
• ShowNew
• HJT

Also run the below procedure and attach the requested log from it too. It may help to explain why you don't see the Change/Remove button.

Getting Uninstall Programs List From The Registry



Here is a little background of what I'm going to look for. There is a registry key named

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

and for each install program, there is a subkey for the program under the above key. If for each program installed a subkey named NoRemove was created and its value is set to 1, then the Remove button for that program will not appear. Also if a subkey named NoModify was created and its value is set to one, the Change button will not appear.


Mouse problems like you mentioned are almost always physical problems with the mouse. Try another mouse and see what happens.

 

Ad-aware probably only reported cookies which are not problems and are definitely not critical.

What popups? Be more specific and describe what they are and when they occur. Your logs are still clean. I repeat cookies are not problems. You should go back and read step 11 of this link How to Protect yourself from malware! which I gave you last time when we finished performing malware cleaning.

Look in Add/Remove programs for the below programs:

• HijackThis 1.99.1
• Panda ActiveScan
• VAIO Original Screen Saver VAIO Cozy Screen SD Wide Contents
• VAIO Original Screen Saver

Does the Change/Remove button appear for these programs?

 

Does not sound like malware. Sounds more like they could be popups related to what sites you are on. Just to make sure they are not related to Windows Messenger (which I did not see), run the below.

Run this Disable/Remove Windows Messenger to remove Windows Messenger.

Then your problem is not malware it is due to the fact that all the other programs have no uninstall (remove) or modify (change) information available anymore even though they still appear in Add/Remove programs. This is probably due to you having deleted the information or from possibly using somekind of registry cleaning program ....etc. This is exactly how your system was when you first posted in the Malware Forum. All of your installed programs except for 3 already had no uninstall information available. There is no simple fix for this. You can try reinstalling every program and see what happens. Or you could also format and reinstall your whole operating system and all other software. It's up to you. Either way as stated previously it is not a malware problem.

 

You're welcome.

Did you decide how you are going to handle your other problem?

 

If you don't need a laptop, stick with a regular desktop. Laptop are notorious for having all kinds of drivers and addition junk loading at startup. In addition, you will get alot more PC for your money by buying a desktop.

 

In this forum we only address malware/security issues. If you are trying to tweak your system, you would have to post in the Hardware or Software Forum depending on what you exact questions are and what you are trying to tweak.