Couple more clean up items I omitted. First boot to Safe Mode;
Using the F8 Method

  1. Restart your computer.
  2. When the machine first starts again it will generally list some equipment that is installed in your machine, amount of memory, hard drives installed etc. At this point you should gently tap the F8 key repeatedly until you are presented with a Windows XP Advanced Options menu.
  3. Select the option for Safe Mode using the arrow keys.
  4. Then press enter on your keyboard to boot into Safe Mode.

Then go to c:\program files\ and look for the following folders:

Inbox
Freeze.com
SweetIM
Viewpoint
WildTangent

If you find any of those folders, delete them. All should be removed but the folders might still remain.
I hesitated earlier but also see that Limewire is installed on the computer. Of course this is a P2P file sharing program, can be dangerous since you can not be sure WHO or WHERE the file is really coming from AND if it is clean or not. Personally I would recommend uninstalling this.

After removing those items then reboot the computer. Download CCleaner to the desktop. Click the Analyze button. When it is complete then click the Run Cleaner button. Close the program.
You need to remove the programs we used, Combofix and SDFix only. The MBA-M program should remain and used weekly for scanning and removal...UPDATE the program before each scan.

Delete SDFix.exe

To remove Combofix do the following:
Go to to Start > Run
Type in box
combofix /u
Note: the space between the X and the /u
Press Enter.


After removing both of those then Right Click My Computer. Choose Properties.
When System Properties opens click the System Restore Tab. When that opens place a check mark in Turn Off system restore. You may get a warning box telling you it is turning off, click ok or whatever the appropriate answer is.
System Restore will turn off. Wait a minute or two and then go back and do the reverse, REMOVE the check mark and System Restore will turn back on.


Since we had all these removals I would recommend a disk defrag. Now the Windows one takes quite awhile. I would advise that you download and use Auslogics Disk Defrag. This works quite well, it IS FREE and is much faster than the built in Defrag progam.