First things first -
I'm running Windows XP SP2 fully updated. I have Spybot S&D installed and fully updated. I have Adaware installed and fully updated. I'm running the newest version of Avast and it automatically updates on a daily basis. Picked up this little bugger over the holiday weekend when my nephew was surfing on my machine. He dl'ed some freeware video conversion tool for his PSP and ran an executable. The problems began there. Now, every ten minutes or so this piece of malware opens IE windows on the desktop with either "Advertisement" or "websearchtv.com" in the titlebar.
Here's what I've done so far:
Ran Spybot S&D - found some typical things from everyday surfing and killed them. Didn't make the problem go away. Ran Adaware and had the same deal - found some things, fixed them, didn't fix the problem. Ran Avast. No problems found.
Booted in safe mode and did all of these things again. Made no difference. Checked installed programs to see if I could just uninstall this websearchtv thing - nothing's showing up there. So it seems it's more involved than my level of security know-how.
So
I've attached a Hijack This log text file that was generated by the latest version of HJT day before yesterday. Any help deciphering what I need to do is MUCH appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
J
I'm running Windows XP SP2 fully updated. I have Spybot S&D installed and fully updated. I have Adaware installed and fully updated. I'm running the newest version of Avast and it automatically updates on a daily basis. Picked up this little bugger over the holiday weekend when my nephew was surfing on my machine. He dl'ed some freeware video conversion tool for his PSP and ran an executable. The problems began there. Now, every ten minutes or so this piece of malware opens IE windows on the desktop with either "Advertisement" or "websearchtv.com" in the titlebar.
Here's what I've done so far:
Ran Spybot S&D - found some typical things from everyday surfing and killed them. Didn't make the problem go away. Ran Adaware and had the same deal - found some things, fixed them, didn't fix the problem. Ran Avast. No problems found.
Booted in safe mode and did all of these things again. Made no difference. Checked installed programs to see if I could just uninstall this websearchtv thing - nothing's showing up there. So it seems it's more involved than my level of security know-how.
So
I've attached a Hijack This log text file that was generated by the latest version of HJT day before yesterday. Any help deciphering what I need to do is MUCH appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
J