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Thanks! You saved me alot of work. I left a deposit on the way out. See ya!

pskelley, what do you think? Are we done? Before we wrap this up, can you tell me what these lines mean from the Combofix report from post #25?
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Well I'm not worried about those issues if you're not (from #31). But thanks for the links. All of this has me in computer maintain mode. I have other issues to handle. So they look like good places...

Okay, I ran a full Norton scan and that was clean. Thanks.

Everything is still running fast. No popups or redirects. Only a couple of things I noticed that are probably nothing:

After rebooting, when it's coming back up - the part where the screen says...

Actually, I did uninstall Combofix before I ran it again. (I also searched my hdd for combofix just to make sure there were no remnants. Then emptied Recylce Bin and cleared with ATF Cleaner.) The...

Sorry about that, I just thought you would want as much information as possible. When other people are having similiar symptoms, there might be a correlation. I thought I was doing us all a favor. I...

Oops. :red: I hope I didn't lose you. I think I made some important progress. I remembered what I read here about Virtumonde:...

Wow, I thought I was done. Just for kicks, I thought I would go back and run another Spybot scan. What do you know. Virtumonde is back! Plus Right Media - tracking cookie: ad.yieldmanager.com.

I'm...

Okay, thanks for the info. You've done more than enough here. Happy Thanksgiving!

Doh! I forgot, I renamed it. Now that I think about it, each time I deleted Combofix to reinstall, I only deleted the executable on the desktop. I was not doing a real uninstall. That might have been...

When I tried to delete Combofix per your instructions, it said "Windows can't find Combofix". I just searched the hdd and it can't find the executable. I must have deleted it off the desktop last...

What are you doing, it's Thanksgiving! Well, I'll be quick. I ran MBAM and it found nothing. I was about to post on here that everything was okay. I figured running Norton would be trivial, because...

Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2
Scan saved at 21:07:33, on 11/26/2008
Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16735)
Boot mode: Normal
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Do I feel like a heel! I even added the funny face. Sorry about that. Here's the HJT Log:

Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2
Scan saved at 18:49:09, on 11/26/2008
Platform: Windows XP SP3...

Banner ads lately have become increasingly aggressive I've noticed. It must be a byproduct of the bad economy. They didn't used to have audio. Now, I hear all the time: "Congratulations, you've...

pskelley, you didn't read my post. I had Norton off in more ways than one. I think the malware had control of Norton. That's also why I don't trust the MS update it's offering! Read my post again. I...

Wow, this was pulling teeth. But I finally managed to run ComboFix. I had to turn services off, logoff. Try again. I tried so many things, I was about to give up. So I lost track of what exact...

Well, this is getting interesting. This post is real long, but here goes. It seems that Combofix will only run if I'm offline. I tried it a couple times with no luck. It would start to open, showing...

Thanks for the info. So that makes sense. Norton does have that type of protection though. I just don't think it has Virtumonde in it's database. Am I wrong about that? Well If anyone out there...

Thanks for the help, I'm just not having any luck with this. I already had Norton disabled in the taskbar and in startup. So this time, I disabled all the Norton services I could find - thru Computer...

pskelly, thanks so much for the help! Yeah, this is getting worse. The startup files seem to be random. It's like what I read, the files are random eight-letter names. Every now and then, it adds a...

I'm wondering if any AV suite is capable of detecting Virtumonde before it installs and does its damage? I'm using an older version of Norton. I keep my definitions up to date. But this obviously...

Yesterday (2008-11-22), I began having problems with Google redirects after conducting searches. Websites would open in new windows that related to my search queries. I tried to run Adaware and that...