I downloaded a torrent of what I thought was a cracked version of some software only to run the .exe included and have all my open windows close. I immediately restarted the computer and was greeted with a message that windows had detected new versions of operating system files and that I should insert the windows disk to fix them. I tried a system restore to no avail, at which point I consulted Julio's sticky to try and fix it. I also noticed that Firefox was much slower than usual and sometimes closed unexpectedly (with the dialog saying "firefox.exe has had to close unexpectedly... etc)
I followed Julio's instructions as closely as I could. After installing AVG it popped up with a list of trojans. I continued with the instructions and when I had done everything I thought I was done because my latest SuperAntiSpyware scan turned up clean and AVG no longer popped up with warnings and I didn't get any messages from windows. However, firefox still terminates without warning so I figure something is still wrong.
I ran AVG again and found two files, which it said it deleted. But then I looked in the "virus vault" and there is still a list of things in there. Do I need to do something about that, and what?
Help! here are my logs... (combofix didn't work... I got some message that the "application failed to start" or something and then a 0x00000005 or some odd number of zeros. I used dss.exe instead, as instructed)
I followed Julio's instructions as closely as I could. After installing AVG it popped up with a list of trojans. I continued with the instructions and when I had done everything I thought I was done because my latest SuperAntiSpyware scan turned up clean and AVG no longer popped up with warnings and I didn't get any messages from windows. However, firefox still terminates without warning so I figure something is still wrong.
I ran AVG again and found two files, which it said it deleted. But then I looked in the "virus vault" and there is still a list of things in there. Do I need to do something about that, and what?
Help! here are my logs... (combofix didn't work... I got some message that the "application failed to start" or something and then a 0x00000005 or some odd number of zeros. I used dss.exe instead, as instructed)