Possible Hijack/Malware: IE8 + Chrome (Contains Requested Logs)

Hello my new computer savvy friends i have an issue that nothing seems to solve. It started when i was using IE8 as i was looking at mixed martial arts videos on yahoo video. The free Mcaffee that my school provides blocked something with a title similar to JSbiogen exploit. i scanned my computer and spybot scanned it but nothing was found so i assumed it must have been an attack that was dealt with. Later while i was playing chess with a facebook application my mcafee blocked the same exploit. I scanned again but found nothing. I uninstaled my mcafee since i was no longer at school and installed avast which has always been good to me. Then i scanned again and found nothing. while i was researching this i found that IE8 started locking up. pages would load and never stop loading. my memory usage was fine and everything else was good but the browser would not go anywhere. i would close the program and reopen it and it still wouldn't work. i also tried logging out and back in and it still wouldn't work, nether would putting the computer in standby or hibrinating it. the only way to fix the problem was to reboot the computer. I then switched to chrome which i find to be awesome lol. the problem happened less frequently but sometimes when it did happen it would take me to a random ad page which is suspicious to say the least. I also noticed that chrome was still alive in the processes even after i closed it and when i tried to end the process or it and its tree it would not end. finally my little brother suggested your cleaning procedures. i had to uninstall my zone alarm to perform them so i disconnected my internet while performing the scans. After them my computer seemed fine. ran faster but had a few glitches which i think were a small consequences of such harsh scans (nothing too bad). But today my google chrome locked up again like 3 times. It doesn't stick around in the processes like it used to but it just stops working.

Main problems: browsers lock up (IE8 and Chrome both updated), occasional webpage redirection.

Worries: blocked exploit/Trojan

Specs: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo T9600 @2.80GHz, 4.00GB, 32-bit Vista Home Premium Service pack 1, NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT. notebook

Often used Miscellaneous Programs: Various Games, Skype, Ccleaner, Defraggler.

Security: MCafee and Vista Firewall (in the relevant past). Avast and Zone Alarm (Currently). SUPERAntiSpyware (installed just a few days ago). Spybot and SpywareBlaster (Consistently).

majorgeek's cleaning procedures attached

 

Thank you miss. The problem might be getting worse but it still occurs relatively rarely. Last time it happened i couldn't shut down properly and chrome stuck around in in the processes after the program was closed. It also might be interfering with my battlenet on Warcraft 3 but that could be paranoia lol.

 

I dont have firefox installed all i have is IE8 and Chrome. I use chrome often and IE8 occasionally. can i use these cleaners the same way with chrome and IE8

 

Done and done... and ahh mystery girl, if i may call you that; what does this program do just for curiosity sake.

no fix log attached

 

i just ran it so theres no way to know since it happens infrequently. though i think it locked up last night

 

btw if you dont already know i only ran the no fix

 

hey, not sure if this is relevant but when i went to a websight searching for a fight video through yahoo i got this message from avast:

26.05.2009 00:44:40 Network Shield: blocked access to malicious site scanner.rapidantivir09.com/35/?advid=6643&ref=0&p=1000000000 [ C:\Users\Wisdom\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe ( 3120 ) ]


I imediately unpluged my comp from the network, closed chrome and crap cleaned.

 

Thank you Kestrel it has been a pleasure despite the impersonal nature of these forums . I hope we cross paths again on here. Lol maybe you can help me with my software issues.

I'll run the final steps tomorrow but i was wondering, does doing these final steps reverse anything i've done since the scans. I just installed a game, a printer driver and a "Game Booster" program. i was wondering if this will uninstall those and restore my computer to what it was when i did the cleaning procedures.

 

o'shnap hold the phone... umm my computer was overheated while i was playing titan quest so i figured i would play Call of Duty for a while online. the moment i entered a game Avast told me it found what may be malware using hueristic software in my punkbuster program. So i submitted the file for analysis and it had me do a bootscan. its scanning now, was it just a false positive or should i be worried.

 

i dont know how to file path. can you tell me how to get it from avast?

 

it offered to ignore or to delete the file. since it recommended that i ignore the file i ignored it. once i ignored it it said it wanted to perform a boot scan. i allowed it to do the boot scan.

i looked at the boot scan log and nothing was found.

and yes, i checked the logs i was just unable to find any entry. could you perhaps tell me where exactly to look?

 

i kinda agree on the false positive cause i looked though some forums on google and they indicated that it probably was. so i went through the finnal cleaning/uninstaling proceedures and i think im good to go.

Again its been a pleasure and thanks for all the help