IE problems, HijackThis log not posted as per suggestion

I was having some IE problems and I tried to fix some stuff myself, but the problems are basically persisting. Here are the symptoms before I tried to fix it:
1) Whenever I clicked on a link or entered anything into the toolbar, text would appear in the bottom status bar showing that IE was actually sending some request to another website called ad(something). I checked it out and it was for a company called midaddle.
2) Any form that I submitted (including trying to send email from Yahoo mail) would almost always cause IE to just keep spinning, without giving me a confirmation page. Sometimes I would click on the send button various times, and find out that it had actually sent like 5 emails.
3) Any link I clicked on that opened a new window would open the new window, but then not find anything and just keep searching forever without giving me any “Page not found” errors.
4) MSN messenger did not work correctly, was not sending messages/log me off every few seconds.

Here’s what I did to try and solve the problem:
1) I ran Spybot Search & Destroy and Ad-Aware.
2) Ran HijackThis and checked/fixed some lines that corresponded to another forum posting that I found online.

But the problem still occurs, only now IE doesn’t say that it is sending requests to midaddle. I probably have other things in Hijackthis that I should correct, but like I said, I only used fixed items in someone else’s HijackThis log that corresponded to items in my log. There are probably additional items still there, maybe other problems entirely.

Help?

 

ok, i followed all instruction in that last link you sent me, and the problems are still there. In fact, one of the problem behaviors is that IE won't let me add an attachment to this posting. When I click the Manage Attachments button below, it opens a new window but nothing ever appears in it. I hit F5 refresh but does not work. So I'm going to have to paste the logfile into this posting, sorry.

By the way, I also posted my hijack this log on tomcoyote.com forum for help their help person responded, so I'm including his response down at the bottom, just to double check with you guys. thanks for all of your help.

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Edit by chaslang: changed log into an attachment. Please follow instructions properly.

 

post it as an attachment next time. it just makes it a lot easier for search engines and stuff. thanx a ton

 

hi chaslang,

ok, i understand what you mean about postings on multiple sites. i'll stick with you guys since i've been mostly following along your site's suggestions anyway. by the way, i really appreciate all your help.

about attaching the HijackThis log, i am unable to do that from this forum, so i'm going to include a link to my website where i'll upload it. the problem is that when I hit the "manage attachments" button, nothing appears inside the subsequent window. the IE frame appears, but nothing else inside, no browse button, no text, nothing. i took a screenshot and uploaded it to my website here to show you what i mean:
http://www.shimooka.com/screen1.jpg

this is one of the persistent problems i have with IE. also, when I go to windows update webpage, and begin downloading updates, it gives me the downloading dialog box but never seems to start downloading the updates. the dialog box never shows the download progress bar and never closes on it's own, no matter how many times i click on the "download updates" link. i've had similar problems whenever i've tried to submit forms online, including in yahoo mail. when i hit the send button, IE just spins and never gives me a confirmation screen that my email has been sent, even though in some cases it has been sent.

finally, on the last item you commented about, the sqlgr.exe, I am running mySQL server on my machine (Apache platform). is there any way that the HijackThis entry relates to a necessary mySQL file (since the file name starts with "sql")? are you sure it is a malware? i would hate to delete it and have to reinstall mySQL server.

so i followed the instructions and fixed those items that you said to do, except for the sqlgr.exe item, which i'll wait for your confirmation. i then ran Hijackthis again and posted the log here:
http://www.shimooka.com/hijackthis1.txt

IE is still behaving strangely although faster in some regards, like clicking on normal links. also MSN messenger is still virtually unusable. help? would it help to try re-installing IE and/or messenger?

 

Just thought I would add that the links you had posted don't work. It says that the page cannot be found.

 

Oh yeah now they are. But like 30 minutes ago they weren't.

 

So I discovered something in my problem. I think the problem may be internet explorer, i tried using netscape on various sites and it seems to work fine. IE has that weird problem of stalling on some websites (like any of my 3 mail websites) and not being able to open new pop-up windows. does anyone know how to uninstall and reinstall IE? I tried resetting all the web settings in IE using Tools-> Reset Web settings but to no avail.

 

So I discovered something in my problem. I think the problem may be internet explorer, i tried using netscape on various sites and it seems to work fine. IE has that weird problem of stalling on some websites (like any of my 3 mail websites) and not being able to open new pop-up windows. Do you think that re-installing IE would help? I tried resetting all the web settings in IE using Tools-> Reset Web settings but to no avail.

charles

ps- anyone know how to do this with Win XP?