desktop icons and nonsense homepage address change

[hubavaiK]

HI,

I am running NS 7.2.

Everytime I turn my computer on I get like 6 or 7 different desktop icons installed for casino and poker and ring tones and stuff like that. Also my home page changes to some total nonsense.

I downloaded and ran Spybot S&D and get a bunch of results which then I clear in the hope that they are gone and won't return.

The problem is everytime I restart my machine these icons re-appear, if not all of them, at least 2 or 3 of them (the same kind).

Is this normal?

This would mean I'd have to run a spyware S&D on every start up...

I am a newbie to spyware.

Is there a mising step in my S&D process that I am not doing to prevent these icons from returning?

Thanks.

[tashi]

Hello and welcome. :)

By your description you have an infected computer.

Please go here and follow instructions.
Before you post a log, and who will advise you. (http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=288)

Start a topic here:
Malware Forum (http://forums.spybot.info/forumdisplay.php?f=22[/url)

Someone will then take a look at the system and advise you as soon as available to do so.

Cheers.

[hubavaiK]

Thanks, Tashi.

[hubavaiK]

Tashi,

I got my reports but they are too big to be attached. My panda scan is :179 KB
And my Spybot is 124 KB

Hope I am doing this right.

I was also trying to copy/paste them into the thread page but they exceed the allowed character count.(311645 characters)

Is this normal?

Should I submit them via two different posts?

Thanks!

[tashi]

Hi there.
No need to attach the Panda scan or the Spybot-S&D log unless requested by your helper.
For now please start a topic in the malware forum and copy/paste the HJT log into it.
You should be ok posting the hjt log alone, if not just use two posts into the same topic.

Start the topic here:
Malware Forum (http://forums.spybot.info/forumdisplay.php?f=22[/url)

Thanks. :)

[hubavaiK]

Thanks, Tashi!