From: "JHyett" <JHyett@discussions.microsoft.com>
| Here goes....
| I have two symptoms..
|
| First and most annoying.... something is causing my programs to go to the
| background. It doesn't minimize them or close, but if, for example, you are
| typing every 30 secs or so you can't type anymore because that window is no
| longer active...VERY ANNOYING
|
| Second.... if I try to search it redirects my googe searches to info.com
| pages. Usually my google search will work, I am doing this from the toolbar
| in i.e. 7, then it will flash up new search results, and they all seem to be
| linked somehow to info.com....
|
| Any help is appreciated...
For non-viral malware...
Please download, install and update the following software...
* Ad-aware SE 2007
http://www.lavasoft.de/
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
http://www.lavasoft.de/ms/index.htm
* SpyBot Search and Destroy v1.5
http://security.kolla.de/
http://www.safer-networking.org/microsoft.en.html
* SuperAntiSpyware
http://www.superantispyware.com/superantispywarefreevspro.html
After the software is updated, I suggest scanning the system in Safe Mode.
For viral malware...
* Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose Unzip
Choose Close
Execute C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }
NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.
C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode.
This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web site.
The choices are Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the PC.
You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.
When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file.
http://www.ik-cs.com/multi-av.htm
Additional Instructions:
http://pcdid.com/Multi_AV.htm
* * * Please report back your results * * *
--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV -
http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp