Sorry for the vague subject line, I don’t really know what to say for it. :-\
Background info;
On Nov 12, a hard drive failure virus thing managed to attack my laptop. I hadn’t done anything different, went to the same sites I’ve visited a hundred times before, but whatever, it happened. It had also 'crash dump’ed that morning, so I don’t know if that was just my computer or if that was also part of this somehow. Of course I didn’t know if it was a virus or if my computer decided to die, so off to google I went (via another computer). I found and followed the instructions I found here; http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-hard-drive-diagnostic but I did not do step 18 - use Secunia PSI to scan for vulnerable programs. I was eager to see if my computer was fixed and thought it could wait/be ignored. Things looked great, my icons had returned, programs were working, and Chrome was even working better than it had been recently.
Current issue;
Unfortunately, the ‘fix’ was short-lived. After a few minutes online, avast started getting multiple red popups (anywhere from 2 to 6 in a row/at once) about blocking sites and things. Browsing the internet, not that I would want to in this state, became impossible because pages seemed to have quit loading altogether at this point. I know now that I don’t even have to have a browser open for the popups to come, being connected to the internet while simply sitting on my desktop is enough.
Nov 13 - I had thought that maybe there were some leftovers of the hard drive thing, so I reran RKill and Malwarebytes, but nothing more came up. I also ran an avast full scan and boot scan, but it didn’t really catch anything at this point either. Since poor avast was seriously working overtime (or going haywire), I returned to google and wound up here. Meanwhile, my laptop has been currently sitting with the wi-fi disabled.
So, I’ve downloaded the programs from the sticky and attached the logs, except for aswMBR as I can’t get it to do anything. I did try to open it in Safe Mode, but that didn’t work either. :-\
Hope you can help my poor laptop out. It’s having a rough week. :-[