something awful

[philtro]

it seems to be running ok. It was getting a bit choked up, but uninstalling Kaspersky seems to have helped. It's very intrusive with pop ups from all different parts of your system, I might have blocked some internet pop ups due to recent extreme malware paranoia. I've been running scans here and there (MBAM, kaspersky, updating spywareblaster, superantispyware) and nothing is found.

[jholland1964]

Thanks for the clarification Phil. Kaspersky, while basically a good program does tend to "inform" quite often which is one reason I didn't care for it several years ago when I tried it out. It is good to be informed but this program takes it a bit far at times I believe and yes, at times it can slow a system down.

Now whether you finally decide to reinstall or not there are some things you must do regardless. In order stay clean and to be clean for sure, to prevent re-installing malware etc, you will still need to perform the scans/cleaning on ALL the storage/media that you used prior to that first reinstallation because now we know for certain the computer WAS infected then and probably reinfected after the reinstall. You know there was some prior infection there at some time, you stated that in your very first post in this thread, and the Dr. Web-Curit found two items in system restore and also the Trojan-Hacktool.Tool.Prockill on "C" drive. The combofix logs showed the suspicious files in "C" drive and the jotti scans identified them and you cleaned them out with combofix. So there IS a chance that when you did the back ups you also backed up these infections to the storage media you used...disks you burned, the other hard drives maybe, whatever. So all of these items will have to be scanned and cleaned BEFORE they are reinstalled to re-create "clean" media regardless of the decision you make, otherwise you will end up with the very same infections that started all of this.
You will also probably need to reinstall all of your applications also you will need those disks too. If you have programs you downloaded from the web, I personally would not reinstall those from the backups, I would download new copies to be safe.
There are also some helpful steps you can take after a reinstall, OR just sticking with the clean system as it is now, different ways of configuring certain windows services "disabling services that pose security risks, disabling services that are unnecessary to help keep the system clean, running fast so you might want to create a new post in
Operating Systems to discuss these steps.
Judy

[philtro]

ok here is what i have:
It seems that infections were cleaned on each of the scans they were found in or during the steps taken afterwards.

Every drive has been getting scanned each time I have run scanners that allow it, I even scanned my latest nlite cd multiple times.

I also deleted every single file i've recently downloaded (mainly just xp components and drivers) and scoured my computer for any unnecessary program backups (installers). (all of this when we first started)

Are there anymore scans out there, or are the ones run so far sufficient? If so, then I'd say I'm clean

[cauzomb]

Are there anymore scans out there, or are the ones run so far sufficient? If so, then I'd say I'm clean

There are several decent free online anti-virus scanners that you can run on your drives/archived files, even your nlighted disc;

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ online scanner, and bit-defender online scanner are two that I can remember off hand.

It is becoming more and more difficult to be certain that you are "virus-free" and most of the new Anti-virus app's are pretty up-to date, but there are still chances that the infections get on there and can't be detected "YET" So it's a good measure to check with multiple anti-virus applications, one might find something another one doesn't.

Don't have more than ONE anti-virus application installed/running at a time, they may conflict with eachother.. Do one at a time, install, update, scan, uninstal, "you may need a custom uninstaller utility for some AV products" install next app repeat update/scan etc..