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Well all I've seen is several attempts to get out of providing me with any advice, during which time I have answered my own question with a more detailed web search, while all you have done is whinge...

This is proving to be more time wasting than the fault itself.

Perhaps Spybot is no longer for me.

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More reading up, and I learn that the items appearing in the DNS are to be expected from loopbacks from Spybot's own adding of 127.0.0.1 to some of the hosts file entries.

However, while on the...

Thanks for the reply Tashi.

Not sure why I need to start a new thread, but here is my HJT log.
A couple of sites have been put into the trusted sites zone because of a problem that frequently...

Hi,
Having had a minor problem with a usb wireless adaptor, I (XPPro) used ipconfig /dnsflush to 'clear' the DNS cache.

However, when I then ran ipconfig /displaydns, I was surprised to find a...

Cheers:bigthumb:

I won't rush them though. It looks like they decidedly have their work cut out with something called 'virtumonde'. Thankfully, something which does not seem to have found us yet!

Hi helpful people.

What seemed like a simple query over at:

http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=31393

Regarding a 'System Internals' Spybot check that came up with an odd 'Win32'...

Thanks again Zenobia.

I've use HiJack This before, and usually used it in the AumHa forum. Hadn't appreciated until now that there were similarly very helpful people here as well!

I will run...

Now have had to try fast user switching to the other user to retrieve a doc.

The other user does have the network connection symbol in the notification area, but, for that side, the Host Secure...

Bit difficult to say if I was having malware problems because that is what I am trying to establish...

I was looking into the problem of the 'Hosts Secure/JIT debugging' messages on start up, and...

Hi Zenobia and thanks Terminator,

Running the c:\ search crashed Spybot first go, and found nothing the next.

The new Spybot came with TeaTimer enabled.
Which now explains another puzzle I'd...

Had already proceded to update to the new Spybot and scan this evening.

Interestingly the system internals scan now picks up a different set of wrong uninstallers, but still the same 'Win32'.

I...

Thanks ever so, for tips, and apologies for forgetting the system, this is XP Pro with SP2 and all the updates as received from MS. I'm still using IE6 too.

In the Spybot log the first two...

A bit puzzled by an entry that crops up when I run the 'system internals' tool. The entry is:

"An app is registered with windows but could not be found at the given location.
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