From: "Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries" <nimue@databasix.com>

| Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries wrote:
>> Leythos wrote:
>>> In article <49444a4c.324552812@news.webtv.com>,
>>> awalker@nspank.invalid says...
>>>> It's certainly interesting that both version 5 and 6 had problems
>>>> *AND* the only reported symptoms occurred recently. I suppose it
>>>> might also be a Windows Update *feature* if both of you updated with
>>>> recent OS updates.


>>> Can't be Windows Updates as I've started testing with XP SP1 and
>>> walked though all updates to version SP2 then all updates and then
>>> SP3 and updates, not able to repeat any reported problem with it.

>>> I'm suspecting it's something that was on the machine, malware, that
>>> targets multi-av as well as other tools.

>> I think I've already said there is no malware on this machine. And, at
>> the time of the incident, I was downloading definitions, not doing a
>> scan.

>> I suspect what you suspect is unlikely.

| I ran a full scan with NOD32, SuperAntiSpyware and MBAM. Except for the
| "trojans" that NOD32 always picks up--i.e., tools from Bootdisk and
| Nirsoft, as well as ComboFix, all of which I've had on this machine
| since 2006--and some 35 tracking cookies, the scans picked up nothing,
| and the computer is not behaving strangely otherwise. If there is some
| other scan I can run in order to satisfy you that this is not a
| malware-related issue, please let me know what it is.

| If you think it will be useful, I can also post a link to my scan logs,
| as well as a current Hijack This log, for your perusal.

No, not needed.

I don't think it malware related.



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Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
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