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I went with Zone Alarm, so I have Zone Alarm and Avast working to protect my computer real-time. I'm guessing that's enough for the average computer user to keep things relatively safe?

I've got a...

Thanks for the info. I think my comp is clean, Spybot's certainly not picking up Virtumonde and Smitfraud anymore which I think means they're gone (woo).

I'll make a system restore save point of...

Sorry, that logfile posted weirdly. I had it on word-wrap so I think it stuck in linebreaks and stuff. Took it off and reposted:

Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2
Scan saved at 10:29:05,...

I don't have any real-time protection running mostly because of bad experiences with McAfee and Norton being severe resource hogs. I guess since then I've just been striding by relying on stuff like...

"???????? 2003" is a Chinese characters keyboard programme. Its name is in Chinese so I assume that's why it comes up as "???" instead of in its characters.

The out-dated version of Firefox is...

Thanks for the reply. I'm not 100% sure if Recovery Console installed properly, but I think it did (something installed but initially it said "no internet connection" followed by clicking okay and...

They forced their way in through Adobe and I've been battling with them for a few days through conventional means (Ad-Aware 2008 and Spybot S&D 1.6.0) with no luck. They get "deleted" and pop right...