My computers gone insane
 

OK, ive got a bit of a problem here, last night after going on good-tutorials.com something tried to shut all programs + windows down. My computer just turned unresponsive so i restarted.

Upon restart there was something like sexfinder in the taskbar icons + also i had these programs starting up - automove.exe (can somebody tell me whether that is part of windows as googling it didnt come up with much and its now reappeared as a startup item), alchem.exe, 'internet optimizer', msbb.exe (part of that optimiser), pqj.exe.

I did a search and i think alchem.exe came up as adware on symantecs page.

Ive run panda antivirus, spybot s&d and ad-adware, all fully updated. Ive deleted all the startup entries from the registry and unchecked them in msconfig aswell as deleting the programs.

A search and look at the task manager shows non of those programs running but still i have constant bloody ringtone popups ('you have been awarded a free polyphonic ringtone, selection of britney, usher and 50 cent'). A search on that returns nothing of use. If i unplug the modem and the ringtone popup attempts to load the title bar is something like {2dasd adsad 2dadsd 2dafgfd }, thats just an example, though it is longer. Once the popup must of not loaded up properly and it went to a search page or something and searched for it (i think my pages which would load up if something doesnt exist has been changed aswell). Aswell as my homepage being changed and i cant use the pull down menu on the address bar.

Anybody got an ideas?

Thanks

edit: btw i never press yes to any of those do you want to install x program, also, a new popup came up http://www.academyart.edu/about/what_aac.asp?IT=PWSONC

Re: My computers gone insane
 

hiya

sounds like some nasty is still lurking on your system

you could try the tools located here

especially startuplist & hijackthis - if you paste the result from hijackthis back here, someone should be able to suggest a solution.

Re: My computers gone insane
 

Have you tried running adaware in safe mode ?

Re: My computers gone insane
 

No, but the problem seems to of been solved.

Hijackthis showed swin32.dll and nsem215.dll, i was suspicious of the the latter, googled it, found it was related to that internet optimizer. I ungregistered the dll, restarted and hey presto! No more error page hijacking :)

Swin32 was related to automove.exe, though i dont really know what that program did.

Though i can get onto my pull down bar + no popups now :)

Cheers all and thnx for the links.

Re: My computers gone insane
 

glad you got it sorted :tu: