Please Help!

Hi ... I'm newbie here and have been referred here by Shadow_Puter_Dude from the malware section (topic/thread: Advanced help for advanced problem) as he believes the problems I'm experiencing are possibly due to some software fault rather than malware I wish he is right but I'm not fully convinced yet (see above thread) ...I'm pasting below a part of that thread where I point out some of the problems ...

Thanx4ur-help!




"Hi...I'm writing this from a different pc because after downloading and running winpfind I did a scan but it completely stopped in the middle and a box came up stating: invalid data type for " ...and then it just hanged. after trying in normal mode i tried with safe mode but with the same result...

the problem is after that when i rebooted into normal mode nothing worked, ie, i wasnt able to open any programs etc. and things went bezerk and crashing all over the place... i wasnt even able to retrieve the first part of the winpfind log which i saved into notepad, nor prepare another hjt log, all this whilst the internet connected was unplugged throughout!

afterwards i booted into safe made where programs seem to be working so far without too much hassle, but i still cannot get the winpfind log onto any kind of cd-rw or dvd-rw, which i would need to get it onto this site (i did manage to get a copy onto a floppy but that wont help me on this pc)... reading from the log on the other pc, it seemed to get stuck at [hkey_local_machine ... shellobjectDelayLoad] at %systemroot%\system32\shell.dll ...??

I had strong suspicions that I was being watched/hacked for a while ... now I'm convinced.... pleaaaaaaaaaase help!!!

Thanks again 4 letting me rave on ... hopefully we'll very soon get to the bottom of this!"

 

Operating System?

How long has it been an issue?

 

Hipster it appears that he is running Windows XP SP2.

thanx4ur-help it appears from your HJT log that you are running Symantec, Avast 4, ZA and Edwio Security suite.........Golden rule one anti virus, one firewall running at a time, lots of conflicts have been reported here from people running more than one. Suggest as that PC is not connected to the net, that you strip ALL security suites/firewalls/antivirus from you machine then run CCleaner link http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4191 then see how it goes from there Please do not connect that PC to the net without installing one Firewall and one antivirus Best of Luck and keep posting