I've been battling against spyware etc for about a month now. In fact, I've followed realblackstuff's instructions at https://www.techspot.com/vb/topic17297.html 16 times now! Also, I'm only visiting trusted websites and using Firefox instead of IE, so I don't reckon I'm getting reinfected.
Earlier today, within minutes of opening Firefox, my PC was locked up, no response to Ctrl-Alt-Del, and so I had to stick a pencil in the reboot slot. I ran realblackstuff's instructions again and Ad-Aware came up with 10 critical objects, only 8 of which it could remove. This is becoming a familiar pattern. Although it offers to remove the remaining 2 critical objects after the next reboot, it never finds them again, and in time, all the problems return.
Here are the two that couldn't be removed today (this is taken from the Ad-Aware log):
Deep scanning and examining files (c
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Object "A0055962.CPY" found in this archive.
CoolWebSearch Object Recognized!
Type : File
Data : FS30.CAB
Category : Malware
Comment : Object "A0055962.CPY" found in this archive.
Object : c:\_RESTORE\ARCHIVE\
Object "A0056642.CPY" found in this archive.
DyFuCA Object Recognized!
Type : File
Data : FS44.CAB
Category : Malware
Comment : Object "A0056642.CPY" found in this archive.
Object : c:\_RESTORE\ARCHIVE\
There's been no suspicious changes to my HijackThis log since realblackstuff gave it a clean bill of health.
Well, any help would be very gratefully received.
Thanks.
Earlier today, within minutes of opening Firefox, my PC was locked up, no response to Ctrl-Alt-Del, and so I had to stick a pencil in the reboot slot. I ran realblackstuff's instructions again and Ad-Aware came up with 10 critical objects, only 8 of which it could remove. This is becoming a familiar pattern. Although it offers to remove the remaining 2 critical objects after the next reboot, it never finds them again, and in time, all the problems return.
Here are the two that couldn't be removed today (this is taken from the Ad-Aware log):
Deep scanning and examining files (c
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Object "A0055962.CPY" found in this archive.
CoolWebSearch Object Recognized!
Type : File
Data : FS30.CAB
Category : Malware
Comment : Object "A0055962.CPY" found in this archive.
Object : c:\_RESTORE\ARCHIVE\
Object "A0056642.CPY" found in this archive.
DyFuCA Object Recognized!
Type : File
Data : FS44.CAB
Category : Malware
Comment : Object "A0056642.CPY" found in this archive.
Object : c:\_RESTORE\ARCHIVE\
There's been no suspicious changes to my HijackThis log since realblackstuff gave it a clean bill of health.
Well, any help would be very gratefully received.
Thanks.