1. Click the sart button, click run, and copy and paste this line into the box and click ok.

combofix /u

  1. Open Hijack this, click on the misc tools button, slide the slider down, click uninstall.

  2. Create a new restore point

You must be logged on to an administrator account
Go to Start - All Programs - Accessories - System Tools - System Restore.
Click Create a restore point, and then click Next.
In the text box labeled Restore Point Description, type a name for this restore point , click create

  1. Remove old restore points
  • Go to Start - All Programs - Accessories - system tools. Launch the Disk Cleanup tool and let it run. When it finishes a box with tabs will appear, select the more options tab. On this tab you will find a section for System Restore. If you press the Clean Up button for that section, Windows will delete all restore points except for the most recent one.
  1. Download and run this clean up utility. You can use it regularly. When it’s first run, it is in demo mode to show you what it will remove. Review it and then rerun in real mode. It is configurable.

CleanUp

  1. Your java is waaaaaay out of date. It can be used as an entry point for malware.

Open an Internet Explorer (only) window and go to http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp > In the middle of the page, click on the Download button to the right of Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6u3 > If Information Bar pop-ups up, right-click on it and say it’s OK to display the blocked content.

You do not have to install the Java Web Start ActiveX Control

Accept the license agreement > Click on Windows (XP,Vista, .etc) Offline Installation, Multi-language and Save the file jre-6u3-windows-i586-p.exe to your desktop; do not Run it.

When the download is complete, Open Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs:

Uninstall anything that says Sun Java, Java JRE, or similar.

Close Add/Remove Programs.

In Windows Explorer, navigate to C:\Program Files\Java <=this folder, if found. Delete any subfolders it may contain.

Do NOT delete C:\Program Files[b]JavaVM[/b] <=this folder, if found!

Reboot your computer.

Double-click on the saved file to install the update.

Delete the downloaded installation file after completing the above procedure and reboot if not prompted to do so.

  1. It looks like you are using windows firewall. It doesn’t provide outbound protection. A third party firewall will.

A discussion on free firewalls can be found here.

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=30808.0

If you want something a little heftier than spybot, try the free version of superantispyware. Keep the spybot also, as the free SAS will be on demand only, but it is very good with vundo type detections. Just keep it updated and do “complete scans” from time to time.

Use the little cleanup program I had you download from time time also.

Keep safe and take care. :wink:

btw, you did great.