I dont know how, but here we go!

I dont know if my girlfriend downloaded something stupid, or if I did but I am in the middle of a battle right now:

I am running WIN XP HOME

I have a little sheild in my system icon tray...it continually pops up various fake error messages indicating:

registry errors
spyware errors
virus errors

Every once in awhile it will also pop up a browser that takes me to things like:

winantivirus 2007 or something like that
registry cleaner 2007 or somethig like that

blah blah blah

If I go to right click on the sheild to see what it is it automatically pops up a bunch of errors that try to make me download things

I have run a few spyware programs over and over to try to get rid of it...no help...lol...while im typing this it just gave me an error too...lol "WARNING YOUr COMPUTER Is AT RISK" blah blah blah...in any case, I am doing trend micro house call scan right now, but who knows how that will work out

Any ideas, suggestion or thoughts would be appreciated...i would be happy to follow instructions precisely, generate hijack logs or whatever anyone needs to help me, thanks and I will be online refreshing for awhile until i get this sorted out

 

Warning, your computer is infected!

Your registry has been corrupted

just got that message

 

I will do! Thanks for your help...be back in a few with the results!

 

well i went through this stuff...just made things worse...before, at least the computer ran normal...now...well safe mode is SLOWWWW it took 5 hours to complete the stupid counterspy scan...and EVERYTHING is slowed down...now i have an error on startup too:

Error loading c:\windows\system32\jylqpunx.dll

??? now what?

 

here's my hijack log

 

well it appears I have corrected the issue...and I'm kind of suprised at the lack of support I recieved over here...maybe everyone was busy because of the holiday? IDK...i remember a few years ago when I got jammed up there were a million people trying to help and we got it all figured out...because of the limits of posting on other threads I cannot offer any advice but I did notice someone else having a similiar issue so I hope that they or someone will read this post and direct the solution to the appropriate person:

1st off...the ussual cleaning methods worked, to a certain extent...but to another extent, they created more issues...the malware was removed, but the references in the registry and startup were not removed so there were alot of errors coming up on boot...the solution I ran accross involved a helpful program that I believe should be asses here by someone in authority as it performs a similiar task as hijack, but in a much more user friendly fashion:

Advanced Windows Care Professional 2.0

Is available for free download in trial version but is fully functional during the 15 day trial

Perform a scan

Resolve all issues, then expand the "startup" issues that are not automatically repaired...then you can inspect the entire startup series of programs...AWC will automatically give recomendations and information based on known and "trusted" startup programs...then it will list the "unknowns"...simply verify the unknowns with what you are running...if you dont know, you can easily check the registry entry...you also have the option of simply disabling the entry or deleting it entirely...if you delete...it will remove the instances of the program itself and the registry entries....easy breazy and beautiful

for my issue, the startup program causing the majority of the problem was "tcpipmon.exe"

this is the program that causes the balloon with the invalid popup warnings

Hope this helps the next guy...i had to work all day by myself on this thing