long standing problem with malware

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Please see step 3 of the READ ME which you appear to have ignored. You have Avast, AVG7, and possible a Norton Antivirus program if one was included in Norton SystemWorks 2003 or Norton Utilities 2003. Also do these Norton tools include a firewall???? Uninstall ALL but one antivirus program and then reboot.

Are you using a paid version of AVG or a free trial? It also is out of date. AVG is on version 7.5

Then attach new logs from ShowNew and HJT and tell me what problems still remain.

 

Run HijackThis and select the below line and then close ALL browsers before clicking Fix checked:

O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Regscan] C:\WINDOWS\System32\regscan.exe

After click Fix checked. Exit HJT.

Uninstall the Sunbelt CounterSpy trial since we are finished with it now! Then delete the below two folders which may be left behind by the uninstall:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users.WINDOWS\Application Data\Sunbelt Software
C:\Program Files\Sunbelt Software

Uninstall the below old versions of software:
J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 11
J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 6
J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 8

Make sure you reboot after uninstalling the above!

After reboot, now install the current version of Sun Java from: Sun Java Runtime Environment



Now attach new logs from ShowNew and HJT.

Okay but your logs show it to be version 7.1. Perhaps you should uninstall the program, reboot, and then reinstall the real 7.5 version. This may resolve your issues with the firewall deactivating if the above HJT fix has not changed anything.