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I have an HP Pavilion Entertainment Pc. Operating system Windows Vista 32.

My troubles started I reckon around a month ago. In that period I was using Trend Micro Security Pro.

Around that time I downloaded and installed both Firefox and eMule. FlashPlayer had already given problems

Almost immediately the computer started getting gradually slower, but I only really noticed the difference when my Onda USB Modem (run by Onda Connection Manager) kept disconnecting, the computer telling me it no longer recognized the USB device. This program has always given me trouble and often didn’t connect first time, but it never used to disconnect while in use.

The computer went slower and slower and the Trend updates became ridiculously small: 3 – 4 kBytes. The scans continued to find no problems.

I looked and found my hard disk had very little space left. The first thing I did was look for what was taking up all that space, but with my limited knowledge the only real anomalies I found were two enormous (around 300 mega) programs called X12-30101.exe and X12-42421 hiding away in my documents folder, which looked strange.

Shortly after this, while navigating, new explorer screens kept popping up trying to sell me holidays, books or antivirus scans and programs.

I’ve just noticed that in my documents folders some beastie has replicated the titles of files now starting with ~$ instead of the first two letters.

I did a McAfee scan and it told me I had 18 major probs and another 9 less dangerous ones, but then they wanted me to buy their antivirus.
I did Nod32 and it found nothing.
I did Kaspersky and it found 10 dangerous files and two less dangerous ones. It also detected an attack while I was online.
I tried resolving them using www.viruslist.com, which suggested updating Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash player. The scan now reduced to 6 dangerous and 2 less dangerous threats.

I finally came to HijackThis. I did the whole cleaning procedure and then before closing down yesterday did another Kaspersky scan. We are now down to 2 dangerous files and 2 less dangerous ones.


That’s about the state of things guys. Now it’s your turn.

I’m all ears.

 

MGlog.zip attachment

 

What firewall are you using?
Why is your MBAM log in a foreign language?
Download and run WinDirStat for a look at what is using up your HD space.

 

1. My current firewall is Kaspersky. t the start of my problems I was on Trend Internet Security Pro.

2. I Live in Italy. As I am not conscious of having chosen a language, I presume the download automatically chose an Italian default. Do you want me to do it again in English?

3. I downloaded and ran WinDirStat as directed. How do I get it to you? I can't seem to find a way. Do I need to do the cleanup.
In any case the free disk space is now 64%, so the Vista cleanup process suggested has done something. I hope the worms aren't eating things away!!!

I am getting a lot of intrusions and attacks when connected, and Kaspersky doesn't seem to know how to handle some of them. I'm attaching the Kaspersky report, but I'm afraid that's in Italian too! Sorry.