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divinenow

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Hey!

I've delayed posting in here for at least a week or so, but due to the worsening condition of my computer problem I can't ignore it any longer. My laptop has been working fine for over a year with no visible signs of infection or such, yet recently, I'd say within the past three weeks, the internet speed has begun to slow down drastically and can sometimes lose signal completely;

* My laptop works well with normal applications that don't require the internet, and has more than enough memory (just updated to 2 GB around a week ago)
* The other computers in the house that share the same wireless connection as my laptop have not shown any changes in internet speed
* I have not installed any cracked or illegally downloaded executable programs onto my laptop
* I have not been browsing any warez or porn sites on this laptop
* While I do have uTorrent, it has not been used lately, does not automatically start up, has not been used for sketchy sites or torrents, and has an IP Filter
* All of my internet browsers are affected, this is not an exclusive problem with Firefox which I primarily use
* Upon losing my main wireless connection signal earlier today, I switched to another local network. It connected to the internet, but the connection was very slow as well. Upon restarting my computer, I gained access to my regular connection, which remains to be very slow when it does work


I have been using Norton 360 for a few months, updated to the recent version, and I had Spybot until around a week or so back when I removed it, as it had never found a problem before and was not of much use to me. I've followed the steps listed on the guide here and then some:

*Full system scan with Norton 360; only finds a single tracking cookie every time which is deleted
*Reinstalled Spybot S&D and did full system scan and immunization; did not find anything
*Ran CCleaner, both the standard and registry clean-ups
*Ran TFC
*Ran System Restore
*Ran ERUNT
*Full system scan with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware; this found a Malware.Packer.Morphine in my Ableton file folder. I looked it up and found out that some add-ons within Ableton are false positives for malware, but just in case, I deleted the file
*Updated my Windows Vista to SP1
*Attempted to download Rootrepeal, which Norton 360 identified as a Suspicious.MH690.A heuristic virus and blocked
*Ran OTL with the custom scan settings

I've attached the OTL log, along with 2 Malwarebytes logs, the original one that found the malware.packer.morphine and the most recent one, with my post.

Please help when you have the time!

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