Hello akm11
I have to go to Canada tomorrow so I thought I would post this now while I can since your logs are looking clean.
To re-enable Windows Defender Real-Time Protection:
- Go to "Tools" | "General Settings"
- Scroll down to "Real-time protection options"
- check "Turn on real-time protection (recommended)"
- Remember to reactivate this feature when we have finished all our work.
Your using an old version of Adobe Acrobat Reader, this can leave your pc open to vulnerabilities, you can update it here :
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
Some clean up :
Please double-click OTMoveIt.exe to run it.
Click the Clean up button
Click YES at the next prompt (list downloaded, Do you want to begin cleanup process?)
Click Yes to the reboot
Now we need to create a new System Restore point.
Click Start Menu > Run > type (or copy and paste)
%SystemRoot%\System32\restore\rstrui.exe
Press
OK. Choose
Create a Restore Point then click
Next. Name it and click
Create, when the confirmation screen shows the restore point has been created click
Close.
Next goto Start Menu > Run > type
cleanmgr
Click
OK, Disk Cleanup will open and start calculating the amount of space that can be freed, Once thats finished it will open the Disk Cleanup options screen, click the
More Options tab then click
Clean up on the system restore area and choose
Yes at the confirmation window which will remove all the restore points except the one we just created.
To close Disk Cleanup and remove the Temporary Internet Files detected in the initial scan click
OK then choose
Yes on the confirmation window.
Below I have included a number of recommendations for how to protect your computer against malware infections.
* Keep Windows updated by regularly checking their website at :
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
This will ensure your computer has always the latest security updates available installed on your computer.
* To reduce re-infection for malware in the future, I strongly recommend installing these free programs:
SpywareBlaster protects against bad ActiveX
IE-SPYAD puts over 5000 sites in your restricted zone so you'll be protected when you visit innocent-looking sites that aren't actually innocent at all
Have a look at this tutorial for IE-Spyad
here
Make Internet Explorer more secure
- Click Start > Run
- Type Inetcpl.cpl & click OK
- Click on the Security tab
- Click Reset all zones to default level
- Make sure the Internet Zone is selected & Click Custom level
- In the ActiveX section, set the first two options ("Download signed and unsigned ActiveX controls) to "Prompt", and ("Initialize and Script ActiveX controls not marked as safe") to "Disable".
- Next Click OK, then Apply button and then OK to exit the Internet Properties page.
*
MVPS Hosts file replaces your current HOSTS file with one containing well known ad sites and other bad sites. Basically, this prevents your computer from connecting to those sites by redirecting them to 127.0.0.1 which is your local computer, meaning it will be difficult to infect yourself in the future.
* Please consider using an alternate browser. Mozilla's Firefox browser is fantastic; it is much more
secure than Internet Explorer, immune to almost all known browser hijackers, and also has the best built-in pop up
blocker (as an added benefit!) that I have ever seen. If you are interested, Firefox may be downloaded from
Here
* I notice that you have no firewall on your PC, this is extremely dangerous and leaves your PC open to vulnerabilities, so please download and install one of the following programs :
ZoneAlarm,
Comodo, or
Outpost
Make sure you only use one firewall though. A tutorial on understanding and using firewalls may be found
here.
* I notice that you have no anti-virus program on your PC, this is extremely dangerous and leaves your PC open to vulnerabilities, so please download and install one of the following programs :
AVG makes an excellent free antivirus client, as do
AntiVir or
avast!.
* Take a good look at the following suggestions for malware prevention by reading Tony Klein’s article 'How Did I Get Infected In The First Place'
Here
Thank you for your patience, and performing all of the procedures requested.
