Kind of trying to work my way thru this by reading some of the advice given to others in the thread, so to gather further info I downloaded and ran Exehelper. Here is the log file from it, my Spybot and Malware still dont run,keeps saying "Windows is denied access" like many others here.
exeHelper by Raktor - 09
Build 20090911
Run at 03:33:17 on 09/14/09
Now searching...
Checking for numerical processes...
Checking for bad processes...
Checking for bad files...
Resetting filetype association for .exe
Resetting filetype association for .com
Finished.
exeHelper by Raktor - 09
Build 20090911
Run at 03:33:56 on 09/14/09
Now searching...
Checking for numerical processes...
Checking for bad processes...
Checking for bad files...
Resetting filetype association for .exe
Resetting filetype association for .com
Finished.
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