Trojan.lowzone problems

Ok, so a couple days ago my brother is on my PC and I'm just now starting to get alerts from my Norton Antivirus that it has detected a "Trojan.lowzone" virus on my computer. From what I understand, it's a moderate virus that lowers browser security settings. I followed the instructions from your Sticky thread verbatim: I downloaded every one of the suggested spyware tools, turned off system restore, scanned in safe mode and enabled display of hidden files. I even reactivated my Norton Firewall and made the latest updates. I still can't get rid of the damn thing.

When my Norton firewall is activated I get a message every two minutes (on the dot) saying that the program "ex.exe" is attempting to connect to a DNS server (a remote IP address in VA). I always click "Block on all ports" but it keeps coming up exactly two minutes later. Then when I disable the firewall, that's when I get the message from my auto-protect about the Trojan.lowzone on my computer. The first message from auto-protect is that it is unable to repair:

[C:\Documents and Settings\Compaq_Owner\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\0KTQ5NBR\all[1].exe]

The second message is that "access is denied" to the same file above. And the third message is that the program, [C:\all.exe] was automatically deleted.

I've done everything except mess around with HijackThis, which I thought would be wiser to do AFTER I spoke with someone. If you request it, I will attach the latest logfile from HJT.

Thank you much.

 

Thank you for getting yourself started by following the sticky thread.

You can proceed with HJT.

Make sure you have booted to normal mode and run the steps below:

- Download HijackThis 1.99.1

- Unzip the hijackthis.exe file to a folder you create named C:\Program Files\HJT

- Do NOT run Hijack This from the Desktop, a temp folder, or a sub-folder of C:\Documents and Settings, or choose to run it directly from the downloaded ZIP file.

- Before running HijackThis: You must close each of the following:your web browser, e-mail client, instant messenger, and programs like notepad, wordpad, MS Word etc. And any other unnecessary running programs.

- Run HijackThis and save your log file.

- Post your log as an ATTACHMENT to your next message. (Do NOT copy/paste the log into your post).