Trying to clean out my system

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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HI all -
My 16 yr old has been messing with downloaded Wii and DS hacks, and managed to really infect my PC in the process. I’ve been using Avira for the longest time, but it didn’t find anything. Avast has found several, but the problem isn’t gone yet. Can someone help me out? There’s a few things going on -
1 Chrome will open new tabs and click-throughs to shopping sites, normally from a Craigslist search. For instance, I go to my University’s home page and click through, and get a yellowpages list of places that sell their swag, instead of their homepage. Or on craigs if I search something and click through for a specific link, often with a center button click to open in a new tab, instead of getting the Craigs add I get a spam page selling stuff related to the topic of the add I was going to open.

2 The PC will slow down, BAD, every 20 minutes or so. When I open task manager I find a svchost system file using 90+ % of the processor and a gig+ of ram> I will shut it down through task manager, and the sytem will bounce back to normal, for a while.

3 I have done boot scans and gotten aludra and ardemore (sp?) found, and moved them to the chest and deleted them. I haven’t managed to export a log file yet but I think that’s the names.

4 Pls help ! John in Flint

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Exactly what was found that may give an idea of the type of malware involved, file name, location and malware name.

For the boot-time scan information - Look in the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Alwil Software\Avast\report\aswBoot.txt file (XP location) C:\ProgramData\Avast Software\Avast\report\aswBoot.txt (Vista, Win7 location), check this file using notepad for info on the scan/detections, etc.

I presume that you have fully uninstalled avira as two resident AVs could cause conflict.

What is your Operating System and Firewall ?

If you haven’t already got this software (freeware), download, install, update and run it and report the findings (it should product a log file).

Don’t worry about reported tracking cookies they are a minor issue and not one of security, allow SAS to deal with them though. - See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie. [

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After you download and installed MalwareBytes Anti-Malware (MBAM) & SUPERantispyware (SAS) as DavidR said don’t forget to update the database before you start scanning :wink: