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indeed, after downloading the most recent updates, the icon itself has even disappeared and things seem to be moving as normal now. strange.

until further notice, i think the problem has been...

with the latest update (EDIT: ok, apparently it wasn't the latest, it was the one applied last night. currently downloading and applying the latest update now), spybot seems to be executing some...

many thanks for your help thus far! i'm sorry for not writing back sooner; i decided to take your advice but wanted to try out a few new applications for the new install. ultimately, a few of the new...

decided to try running smitfraudfix and followed the instructions here: http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=4015

still no success. the safemode spybot scan only picked up 6 tracking cookies...

an update: it seems that the latest spybot update wiped away the fake.wget and bifrose.la infections but spybot is still detecting and terminating smitfraud-c in every game patch i try to run....

just noticed the 'attachments' function and decided to attach the spybot log, the nod32 log and a fresh hijackthis log i created after renaming the program hjt.exe

err, whoops, neglect the "part 1" from the nod32 log. that's all there is :oops:

Nod32 scan log part 1

spybot log part 3

spybot log part 2

spybot log part 1

I'm getting recurring infections of Fake.Wget and Bifrose.LA and on a possibly related note, Spybot is detecting Smitfraud-C in pretty much every game patch i try to run; it is terminating the...