'evenin' all!
Something keeps downloading (or otherwise generating) virus infected EXE files in my Contents.IE5 and Windows/Temp folders. AVG Free does find these and treats them accordingly, but I feel that it's treating a symptom while missing the cause. Cue a frantic bout of Googling which brought me here. Before I go any further, it should be noted that I make full use of my router's hardware firewall at the network perimeter, while my machine itself is protected by Tiny Personal Firewall and ProcessGuard. The latter two were disabled for all the following procedures, an unplugged network cable being the best line of defence along with a spare machine, in this case smugly running Linux.
Having followed the obligatory system cleaning instructions (Trojan Pakes and other nasties...) up to the point of submitting an HJT log and the system still not being clean, I decided to pay the good people at AVG some money, by way of a change, and purchased the AVG Anti Malware suite. I then went through the page again, saving all my log files a second time. The only thing that's different is that I'm using AVG Anti Malware, which is Anti Virus and Anti Adware rolled into one. (This didn't find anything incidentally)
Most of the other tools did report something however, so I fixed the findings and re-ran the tools until they all scanned clean. I'm still not using the system though, because the HJT log has one line in it that's making me suspicious: what's up with {FDD3B846-8D59-4ffb-8758-209B6AD74ACC}?
Many thanks for looking at this for me, it really is appreciated!
Mup.
Something keeps downloading (or otherwise generating) virus infected EXE files in my Contents.IE5 and Windows/Temp folders. AVG Free does find these and treats them accordingly, but I feel that it's treating a symptom while missing the cause. Cue a frantic bout of Googling which brought me here. Before I go any further, it should be noted that I make full use of my router's hardware firewall at the network perimeter, while my machine itself is protected by Tiny Personal Firewall and ProcessGuard. The latter two were disabled for all the following procedures, an unplugged network cable being the best line of defence along with a spare machine, in this case smugly running Linux.
Having followed the obligatory system cleaning instructions (Trojan Pakes and other nasties...) up to the point of submitting an HJT log and the system still not being clean, I decided to pay the good people at AVG some money, by way of a change, and purchased the AVG Anti Malware suite. I then went through the page again, saving all my log files a second time. The only thing that's different is that I'm using AVG Anti Malware, which is Anti Virus and Anti Adware rolled into one. (This didn't find anything incidentally)
Most of the other tools did report something however, so I fixed the findings and re-ran the tools until they all scanned clean. I'm still not using the system though, because the HJT log has one line in it that's making me suspicious: what's up with {FDD3B846-8D59-4ffb-8758-209B6AD74ACC}?
Many thanks for looking at this for me, it really is appreciated!
Mup.
