I've had problems with this computer and the internet since it was given to me 3-4 years ago. It got worse, much worse, very recently.
A few months ago I attempted to download IE 8 and it couldn't be done. Since then I've had "Done with errors on page" messages and some difficulty accessing pages - usually very slow to open or a page would hang - while using IE. A few months ago a friend and I started an online business. We sell adult novelty items. I think that may have made us a target, but I also think (more likely) that these viruses have something to do with Facebook and or IE itself.
The biggest problem started over a month ago. I would get a missing DLL message. That message then turned into difficulty on start-up; I'd have to manually make selections to get it booted. Then, I couldn't get it to start up other than in safe mode. A friend is a geek and this is what he does for a living, so I paid him to fix it. He got rid of the viruses I had at that time, gave me a memory upgrade, cleaned off some stuff that was running in the background (but not nearly all that could've been cleaned out.) Things were good for about a month.
A couple weeks ago I'd run SuperAntiSpyware, which usually takes a long time on this machine so I left. When I got back I had a couple of porn sites downloaded on my desk top along with short cuts to items actually
labled as Trojan and Spam.
I updated SuperAntiSpyware again, ran it and that got rid of the stuff on the desktop.
Just over a week ago I started to get the fake security alerts. I used SuperAntiSpyware and it took care of some (I thought all?) each time. Last Thursday I started to get ALOT of warnings and multiple fake security program windows opening up. I tried to run SuperAntiSpyware but couldn't update it. I read somewhere to ignore (don't close) the fake warnings and start the program again, but it still couldn't update. I disconnected from the internet, ran SuperAntiSpyware while offline and it seemed to slow things down - or maybe that was hopeful thinking. I reconnected to the internet and it wasn't long before I'd totally lost control of the computer. I couldn't stop the windows from opening, I couldn't access the control panel and I couldn't access My Computer. I couldn't get SuperAntiSpyware to even open let alone run. When the first porn site window popped up and I realized it was downloading itself, I pulled the internet plug. I shut down the computer and on Friday I made my first post here on geekstogo.
I haven't tried to do alot on here because I didn't want to jinx getting it running right. It has no difficulty accessing this site and moving from page to page quickly. I'll be brave and try to surf a bit to see what happens after I post this update.
OTM log:
All processes killed
========== FILES ==========
File/Folder C:\DGJSENYTSSD.EXE not found.
========== COMMANDS ==========
[EMPTYTEMP]
User: Administrator
->Temp folder emptied: 0 bytes
->Temporary Internet Files folder emptied: 0 bytes
->Flash cache emptied: 0 bytes
User: All Users
User: Deb
->Temp folder emptied: 0 bytes
->Temporary Internet Files folder emptied: 0 bytes
->Flash cache emptied: 0 bytes
User: Default User
->Temp folder emptied: 0 bytes
->Temporary Internet Files folder emptied: 33170 bytes
->Flash cache emptied: 0 bytes
User: Guest
->Temp folder emptied: 0 bytes
->Temporary Internet Files folder emptied: 0 bytes
->Flash cache emptied: 0 bytes
User: Kathleen A. Hill
->Temp folder emptied: 289790 bytes
->Temporary Internet Files folder emptied: 8218954 bytes
->Java cache emptied: 0 bytes
->Apple Safari cache emptied: 0 bytes
->Flash cache emptied: 0 bytes
User: KATHLE~1~HIL
User: LocalService
->Temp folder emptied: 0 bytes
->Temporary Internet Files folder emptied: 33170 bytes
->Flash cache emptied: 0 bytes
User: NetworkService
->Temp folder emptied: 0 bytes
->Temporary Internet Files folder emptied: 33170 bytes
%systemdrive% .tmp files removed: 0 bytes
%systemroot% .tmp files removed: 0 bytes
%systemroot%\System32 .tmp files removed: 0 bytes
%systemroot%\System32\dllcache .tmp files removed: 0 bytes
%systemroot%\System32\drivers .tmp files removed: 0 bytes
Windows Temp folder emptied: 5091472 bytes
%systemroot%\system32\config\systemprofile\Local Settings\Temp folder emptied: 13511932 bytes
%systemroot%\system32\config\systemprofile\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files folder emptied: 0 bytes
RecycleBin emptied: 0 bytes
Total Files Cleaned = 26.00 mb
OTM by OldTimer - Version 3.1.12.2 log created on 06092010_220751
Files moved on Reboot...
File C:\Documents and Settings\Kathleen A. Hill\Local Settings\Temp\~DF732C.tmp not found!
C:\Documents and Settings\Kathleen A. Hill\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\OEWJT5Z9\Windows-Security-Alert-Application-cannot-executed-Internet-Explo-t278613[1].htm moved successfully.
C:\Documents and Settings\Kathleen A. Hill\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\F0JJ8ADU\iframe[3].htm moved successfully.
C:\Documents and Settings\Kathleen A. Hill\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\AntiPhishing\A0AB7674-8D67-4F4D-B5E1-96FAEADFB79D.dat moved successfully.
Registry entries deleted on Reboot...