AutoTbar, BlockTracker and a blank entry

Hi ya'll,

Burning the midnight oil here... trying to figure out what needs to stay/go on my XP SP2 machine.

I did a Google search for AutoTBar & BlockTracker and both sound like they should be harmless either enabled or disabled... but when I try to disable them, I get an error saying that it can not be found and to make sure I typed it in correctly. I wasn't typing at all, but was using Starter by CodeStuff.

Any ideas?

Also in Starter, there was a blank entry under Startups, All Sections.

Spybot said this was some kind of worm... but Spybot has been acting a little flaky so I left the entry alone and scanned using TrendMicro HouseCall, which found nothing but some tracking cookies, and also Active Virus Shield, which also found nothing and AdAware, also nothing.
I unchecked the blank entry using Starter. The entry is still listed in Starter, of course, but remains unchecked... which seems good.
How do I find out if it really is/was a worm and if I have killed it for good?

 

Your best bet is to post in Malware
http://forums.majorgeeks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=35

 

Okay, ty.

So AutoTbar and BlockTracker are malware then, okay.

Thank you.

 

Not sure about AutoTBar & BlockTracker

but the blank entry under startup, as spybot suggests is a bit suspect

However Malware issues can only be addressed by the professionals in the Malware forum