[Cisco Kid]

Running:

Dell Vostro 1000
XP SP2
AMD Athlon X2
2GB ram
100GB HDD

Symptoms:
This thing is completely riddled. Many "Security Tool" popups, "fake news" popsups, and serious performance degradation before finally freezing up. Certain websites are blocked. Windows update fails with an activeX error. Certain files will not run, specifically the Windows malicious software removal tool. Just blinks and disappears. When I right click and run as administrator it tells me I don't have administrative rights...

Attempted fixes
I booted up and quickly ran msconfig and disabled "92063828" in startup. This let me install and run Mcafee 8.0 which found 54 viruses. Many of them deleted or quarantined but some say "move failed." Symptoms remained. Also tried the Stinger utility, TrendMicro's online scanner, and bitdefender. Each utility keeps finding viruses, but after reboot symptoms remain. Ran the utilities again many times and they find more viruses. Up until recently they were mostly "Fake!Alert" but as I type I see Mcafee has found Vundo.gen. I also tried uninstalling and reinstalling iexplorer and running a windows repair.

Fun fact - "92063828" is still in the startup menu of msconfig, although remains unchecked.

I have downloaded the Hijack This utility and have a log file of the output which I have attached..


Thanks for any help you can provide!

[Cisco Kid]

Update:

I disabled system restore through direction of the link at the bottom of this page

http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_153771.htm

I am now able to open some files I couldn't before. Some symptoms remain.

[Cisco Kid]

bitdefender scan kept popping up the same four .dll's with a "delete failed" next to them. I typed "bitdefender delete failed" into google and this was the first return.

http://forum.bitdefender.com/index.php?showtopic=15797

I downloaded the utility they reference and went in and deleted the four .dll's. A restart brought up a error warning me of a missing .dll but other than that I was able to start windows update and am downloading SP3 successfully. Popups have ceased. I'll repair the missing .dll's and report back if everything is still kosher.