My pc has contracted a very nasty bug

[Bry Man]

Hey,

for a while ive notice my p has been gettins minor spyware apps and the such but it has never bothered me because I run scans once or twice a day (I guess it really does bother me :rolleyes:) but lately its been getting worse until today when it has reached an all time bad. I seem to have contracted a bug that can do MANY things, it shuts down spy-bot s&d and AVG, It is constantly changing registry entries (spy-bots tea timer tells me so, aparently its not affected) and it has also bloacked me from editing my registry and gives me the "system admin has disabled registry editing" warning. I have tried looking for things that are unusual and deleting them as well as terminating process that just come back on, for example there is usually 2-4 instances of ieexplorer runnin at all times when its not really running that take up about 30-50 megs of ram.

If anyone has had this problem or has a suggestion to help me kill this nasty SOB off I would greatly appreciate it as I have been trying for some time now :confused:

[oracleguy]

First off, it isn't called a bug really but that is irrelevent. From the sound of things you have moved beyond just some annoying spyware and into the realm of a virus/trojan/worm.

You try running an anti-virus scan?

[Bry Man]

yes i have "tried" im using AVG and it shuts it down, I tried runnin it from within safe mode but it wouldnt start. I did have 3 trojans before this all happened, about 2 weeks ago, but have since seemingly removed them and there are no traces left. I have noticed a few questionable things, as for it actually being a virus or a worm why would it feel the need to add links on my desktop and favorites to things like drugs and hotels lol, that seems alot like a spyware app to me. Im also supprised how it got passed my armada of firewalls and service pack 2's active x blocker.

Ps: I just use the term bug for stuff that I cant quie put my finger on but is f'in with my computer

[oracleguy]

Do you have another computer?

If you do and it is networked with your problematic one, you could map the drive(s) to the good computer and run the virus scan on them over the network. It'd be a little slow but theoretically would work fine.

[Bry Man]

Ya im part of a 3 computer network, as far as mapping the drives thats something ive never heard of dong so i wouldnt know how to do it

[oracleguy]

Fair enough, basically it lets you access drives on other computers on your network. What OS are you working with?

[Bry Man]

I have xp Pro with sp2, the other 2 comps have xp pro sp2 and xp home sp2

[oracleguy]

Okay, once you share the drive, you can map it being following these directions on the other computer: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308582&sd=tech

To share the drive, just right click on it in my computer and go to the properties and then the Sharing tab. Just make sure to unshare it once you are done for security's sake.

[Bry Man]

I scanned my pc from a remote computer but it had no effect =S, im beginning to consider a format but my floppy drive doesnt work, thelight just stays on all the time, I tried messin around witht the cable but it only goes in one way on the mobo and i tried both ways on the drive itself as well as with another cable

[Bry Man]

I also got spybot to run at startup long enugh to finish its scan but it found nothing....im going to try a system restore and see if that has any effect.

[Bry Man]

I reset my pc about 3 days back and ran spybot and it found 105 entries of CoolWWWSearch, I knew about this one prior, and then I ran AVG and it found an EXE called WinAD.2D....or something to that effect and Deleted it and now everything appears to be fine