When there's something strange, and it don't look good...

I'm pretty sure I have a problem with my computer, but I haven't had any luck finding out what's wrong so far (oh, and a small disclaimer before I start- I'm an idiot).

First, the problems started firefox- I'd try and open it, and then it would swamp me with up to 20 new windows- although after that it would work fine for that session. This happened more than once.

I tried scanning it at the time with AVG 7.5, although that couldn't finish a scan, and the same happened with Ad-aware, although slightly differently- it would notice problems on my computer, but when it got to about 190K files or so it wouldn't go any further. If I stopped the scan, the results would say nothing was found (although the summary details on the first results page said files scanned: 1234567890, and other random numbers). I think the actual log summary still said that it found things, but stupidly I didn't keep it. Similar things happened with Sybot S&D.

I searched a little bit online for how to deal with the problems, and followed one persons reply to another guy's question, of installing AVG antispyware and running it in safe-mode, but it didn't deal with the problem. Since then, something's tried to disable my AVG firewall and the AVG antispyware resident shield at startup, and the windows firewall, pretty regularly. My comp seems to have slowed down, too.


Well I found this forum and have done everything in the READ & RUN ME FIRST guide, but I don't think it's done much- now whatevers up with my PC is messing with counterspy too, trying to shut it down or disable protection (incedentally, the toolbar icon says CS is active, but the main window says *Not Avtivated* at the top). Bitdefender found something but couldn't deal with it, and Panda Activescan found somethings which it mainly dealt with (I did the process a week ago because it found things and disinfected them I thought it was dealt with, but it hadn't so I've done the whole guide again- I can attach both panda activescan logs).


It's also worth noting that I have both AVG anti-spyware AND CounterSpy running at the moment, which could clash since I haven't really thought about it, but I wouldn't have thought that they would be the main problem.


I'll attach the BD, Activescan, Runkey, shownew and HJT logs, but I couldn't get the counterspy log- it says that I haven't ran any scans yet, even though I have. If it turns out that I was in a different user at the time or something, I'll post that up too.

 

Here are the other logs:

 

Thanks very much for replying!

1. I personally didn't install it, and I don't think anyone else intentionally did in the past either.

2. See above.

3. No, I haven't configured those settings.


Also, I don't seem to be able to uninstall Morpheus 1.9- counterspy says that MediaForge/XML Runtime Player (xmforgert.exe) is trying to run, and even if you allow that nothing happens.


And I've done the rest as you said! Thanks!

 

Sorry for the lack of information before, here's the update:

I have uninstalled MediaBar and Counterspy, although Morpheus 1.9 doesn't seem to be able to be removed- nothing happens when I click 'remove' on the Add/Remove programs list.

I've used HJT to fix the about:blank settings.

I didn't post the AVG Rootkit logs because nothing was actually found, which I should have said in the first place!


Thanks for all your help so far