Please Help, not sure what it is?

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It does not appear that you are having any malware problems as your logs are all clean. I'm going to have you run one more scan just to look for rootkits but I don't think we will find anything. Please run the below and attach the requested log:

Running GMER to detect rootkits

Your problems may be due to what you are running. Perhaps you need to look at what you recently installed and also any updates that may have been performed. Some fairly new items I saw includes the below

Code:

"C:\Program Files\"
NAPOLE~1      Jun 26 2008              "Napoleon's Campaigns"
NOS           Aug 28 2008              "NOS"
PANDAS~1      Aug  8 2008              "Panda Security"
POWERS~1      Jul 12 2008              "Power Sound Editor Free"
VIDEOLAN      Aug 14 2008              "VideoLAN"
WARSIN~1      Aug 15 2008              "Wars in America"

 

You said your problems began "about a week ago". NOS is newer than a week and VideoLAN and Wars in America are about a week ago.

Well I don't see any rootkits but I do see a registry entry that is likely an issue. Let's fix it and also cleanup some items from running ComboFix.


Copy the bold text below to notepad. Save it as fixme.reg to your desktop. Be sure the "Save as" type is set to "all files" Once you have saved it double click it and allow it to merge with the registry.

Make sure that you tell me if you receive a success message about adding the above
to the registry. If you do not get a success message, it definitely did not work.

Also if your clock is still in 24 hr mode, you can fix your clock from Control Panel ->Regional and Language Options and then on the Regional Options tab click the Customize button then on the next form click the Time tab. Then change the Time format to what you want. It explains there what the lower case and upper case letters will do. Upper case H is giving you 24 hour clock settings.

 

You're welcome.


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

1. We recommed you keep SUPERAntiSpyware and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for scanning/removal of malware. Unless you purchase them, they provide no protection. They do not use any significan amount of resources ( except a little disk space ) until you run a scan.
3. If we had you use ComboFix, uninstall ComboFix (This uninstall will only work as written if you installed ComboFix on your Desktop like we requested.)
   • Click START then RUN and enter the below into the run box and then click OK. Note the quotes are required
   • "%userprofile%\Desktop\combofix" /u
     • Notes: The space between the combofix" and the /u, it must be there.
     • This will uninstall ComboFix and also reset hidden files and folders settings back to Windows defaults.
   • Delete the C:\combofix folder from combofix (if it exists)
4. Any other miscellaneous tools we may have had you install or download can be uninstalled and deleted.
5. If we had you download any registry patches like fixme.reg or fixWLK.reg (or any others), you can delete these files now.
6. If running Vista, it is time to make sure you have reenabled UAC by double clicking on the C:\MGtools\enableUAC.reg file and allowing it to be added to the registry.
7. Go to add/remove programs and uninstall HijackThis.
8. You can delete the C:\MGtools folder and the C:\MGtools.exe file. You can also delete the C:\MGlogs.zip
9. If you are running Vista, Windows XP or Windows ME, do the below:
   • Refer to the cleaning steps in the READ ME for your Window version and see the steps 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!

 

You may want to post about this in the Software Forum to see if anyone has any ideas. Make sure you tell them that you already ran thru the malware cleaning procedures and everything was clean.