Trojan / Malware infection

Hi guys I think I've got a trojan or virus / malware on my PC - I've followed everything in the Readme file so far and got as far as running SUPERAnti-Spyware, the trojan seems to have blocked me from installing the other apps as when I double click after disabling all my other protection software they won't install or run.

I've previously tried running AVG Free a few days back and that found a trojan which I removed to the vault. I've since cleared the vault as instructed. I've also run CCleaner, ATFCleaner, Microsoft Anti-Malware, Malware Removal Tool and Lavasoft Ad-Aware previous to coming on this forum. I've got some other stuff installed such as TuneUp Utilities 2008, O&O Defrag, and SpeedUpYourPC UniBlue which I'm not sure whether they're worthwhile programs to install or not. I'll also admit now that I tried to install Service Pack 3 with an unlicensed Windows XP Professional and that has more than likely given me the virus from either the WindowsGenuineAdvantage serial or the crack for TuneUp Utilities, there's also a Serials and Cracks folder on my computer from a custom install of Windows XP Borg Edition I'm guessing these serials have a lot of embedded viruses, trojans and cracks in them and assume there likely to cause more trouble in the long run, think I'm going to have to save for a Windows XP license once I've got this mess sorted.

The trojan has blocked me from using Firefox completely in Windows XP, it sometimes pops up buttons asking for me to install suspicious anti-adware software, and whenever I google for anything to do with the removal it brings me to a similar suspicious site, I can however get online with Ubuntu and download files to my Windows XP partition.

I've included a log file for SUPERAnti-Spyware. I can post one up for HijackThis if that's required.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

 

When I double click in Normal Windows XP mode they just do nothing fail to load at all, SUPERAntiSpyware was the only one that would install and work, I haven't tried the trick with renaming ComboFix from the desktop yet, I will try this now and try running in Safe mode also. Thanks.

 

Success =) renamed combofix on the desktop and it seems to have fixed the trojan, still have a lot of software on my computer I don't know what to do about and not sure if I'm totally clean.

Thanks a lot for this, I'm lucky to have been able to get onto this site via ubuntu or I may have needed to format.

Do I need the following still installed?

O&O Defrag
TuneUp Utilities 2008
SUPERAnti-Spyware
Ad-Aware SE Professional
AVG 8.0 Free
Speed Up My PC 3
Malware Removal Tool
Microsoft AntiSpyware
CCleaner
ATF Cleaner
Registry Booster 2

My aim is to just get an up-to-date working copy of Windows XP Professional, I don't have an official Windows XP CD (my dad bought this computer a few years ago (came bundled with AOL and Norton Antivirus ugh, tried to remove that computer went to ----, tried installing McAfee over that, went even worse since upgraded to WinXP Professional (with a free version for students from uni), went even worse, formatted and installed Windows XP Borg Edition, put a lot of pirated software and cracks on here mainly stuff that's just for getting the PC up to speed.

My aim now is just to take off anything I don't need and get the computer running up to high speed (its only 512 Mb Ram), fully updated, Sevice Pack 3 installed.

I mainly use for e-mail, web browsing, iTunes, Bittorrent, forums, software such as the above, MSN. I also have a H: drive partition for music. Ideally I just want advice on achieving the above, I'm happy to stop using the pirate software I prefer not to pirate software, but feel a bit annoyed that I have to pay for software just to make my PC function as it should hence the Ubuntu partition. Any advice on what I should do next to ensure I'm virus free and get any necessary freeware software installed, and remove what's on here. Just link me to the appropriate and relevant threads, cheers.

Also after reading that thread about removing software from startup in msconfig I seem to have stuff running that I thought I'd removed. Computer still runs a bit slow but not too bad. I'm also getting windows asking me to automatically update Windows Genuine Advantage Notification and Security Update for Microsoft.NET framework (I think I uninstalled the .NET framework also as I no longer do any programming or SQL etc).

Also do I need to pay for a licensed copy of Windows XP to get Service Pack 3 installed, I installed a Windows Genuine Advantage hack, maybe I should pay for it but really can't afford it till payday.

 

Here you go, cheers.

 

All done. Thanks again for your help.

MGlogs.zip attached.

 

Things seem to be running pretty well now thanks for all your help. Trojan seems to have gone, only thing is I would like to be able to get Windows Updates and Service Pack 3 installed but I think I'll need to get a licensed copy of windows XP for that. Any advice on which software apps to keep and what to remove in light of my post above, also any ways of keeping the boot time faster? Can I remove all these anti-malware scanners and logs?

 

Thanks again, I have done all this and now installed Comodo Antivirus, Comodo Firewall, AVG Anti-Spyware, Spybot Search and Destroy, Spyware Blaster from the link you sent me. Are these good choices, see below.

I've also ran ATF Cleaner, CCleaner and windows disk cleanup on drive C: + ran scandisk on drive C: and am now defragmenting with O&O defrag complete scan on Drive C: as well as Drive H: (music storage partition). I've also ran registry mechanic and fixed all problems.

Earlier today the startup program link wasn't working but will download that when I get a chance tomorrow.

With all this protection software running in the background and after doing all the above it still seems I'm getting a slow boot speed on windows xp on my computer and it can run pretty slowly still even with a few programs such as msn, itunes and firefox with two or three tabs open. I'm guessing its just the case now that my PC can't run much faster without upgrading my RAM and motherboard? I only have 512 Mb and I think only 448 in use, how much should I be looking at upgrading to for super speed boot times and being able to switch between programs without slow loads / crashes.

Annoying thing is if I run the computer without an antivirus and firewall running I can get it running at a pretty decent loading speed and boot time. I'm guessing it's also worthwhile for me to check all my out of date drivers and get these updated?