Greetings,
I had some URL:Mal messages pop up last night, so I ran the usual scans and am attaching logs here. Some COM surrogate processes were very frequent for a while, but now they are not showing up very much. There are some unusual hidden files shown in FRST’s log at 8:41 on November 8, when one son might have been playing some online games; but other than that I can’t think of changes to the computer since the last cleaning a week or so ago. Maybe just a rogue file on a website somewhere found us again.
Thanks for the lines for the fix. I attached the results here.
For about three hours last evening there were about eight or ten “threat detected” messages, and the COM surrogate processes would sprout up constantly, taking up lots of memory. But at some point while the scans were running last night, those messages and processes seemed to stop. I don’t think any threats came up all day today, even before I posted here. You mentioned there doesn’t seem to be anything specific going on, so maybe it was just an anomaly for some reason.
That sounds as though Poweliks was trying to run but there is no sign at all on your system. Could you monitor it for a while and let me know if it occurs again