The past few days I have been getting error messages at Windows startup related to explorer.exe, msmsg.exe and iexplorer.exe failed to initialize properly. The desktop never loads, only the wall paper. The exe it complains about varies among the 3 mentioned above. On some occasions Windows loads just fine as if there is no problems.
I ran Spybot in safemode as described in one of your threads and removed a bunch of found issues, but one could not be removed because Spybot claimed it was in memory. I allowed Spybot to load on the next reboot thinking it was catch the malware before it had a change to load, but it didn't. The file it is complaining about is SMITFRAUD-C.
I also ran Hijackthis and created a log.
I appreciate any help you could give me to resolve my issue.
Thanks,
Tony