Am I in the right place?

It does not really sound like malware; however the only way to be really sure is for you to run thru ALL of the below. Your alternative would be to ask your question in the Software Forum.

Please follow our standard cleaning procedures which are necessary for us to provide you support. Also there are steps included for installing, running, and posting HijackThis logs as attachments.

• Run ALL the steps in this Sticky thread READ & RUN ME FIRST Before Asking for Support
• Make sure you check version numbers and get all updates.
• Very Important: Make sure you tell us the results from running the tutorial...was anything found? Were you unable to complete any of the scans?...Were you unable to download any of the tools?...Did you do the on-line scans as suggested? etc.

• After doing ALL of the above you still have a problem make sure you have booted to normal mode and run the steps in the below link to properly use HijackThis and attach a log:

Downloading, Installing, and Running HijackThis
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• When you return to make your next post, make sure you attach the following logs and that you have run these scans in the following order too (these scans are covered in steps 6 & 7 of the READ & RUN ME sticky)
  • Bitdefender
  • Panda Scan
  • HijackThis

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While you do have a few things to cleanup from your Panda log you do not have any major malware concerns. And I see nothing that would be causing your problems. But I do have a couple questions.

1. Why and when did you install IE 7? This is a beta program. Are you a beta tester or are you a very experienced PC user? I would not recommend anyone who does not fit those categories to update to a beta program like this.
2. Do you need the below proxy settings for something?

R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings,ProxyServer = 127.0.0.1:8080
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings,ProxyOverride = local

Now on to the minor fixes!

Copy the bold text below to notepad. Save it as fixMe.reg to your desktop (yes overwrite the previous one). 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.

Run Windows Explorer and delete the below:
C:\Program Files\SearchRelevant <--- the whole folder
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\MYDLL.dll
C:\WINDOWS\INF\fastvideoplayer.inf
C:\WINDOWS\usta33.ini


Additional step to delete files in the super hidden Downloaded Program Files folder:
- Click Start, Run, and enter cmd in the box and click OK. This opens a command prompt windows.
- Enter the following command lines each followed by the enter key
cd C:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Program Files\
attrib -r -h -s HDPlugin1019.inf
del HDPlugin1019.inf
cd CONFLICT.1
attrib -r -h -s HDPlugin1019.inf
del HDPlugin1019.inf
exit

 

Okay! Make sure you include full error messages if you are receiving any.

And you MUST uninstall one of the antivirus applications you have installed! And if Symantec came with a firewall, you should not be using ZoneAlarm.