A weird case of Malware

[minkster]

My friend was complaining that his computer was running slow and had problems with it so I decided to help him out with his computer. I ran a spyware and adware scan with Spybot, Adaware, and Microsoft Anti-Spyware. I got rid of like about 100 things of spy/adaware and it made his computer run faster. Then I decided to reboot, and everything was slow again. It seemed very strange, so I looked under his processes to see if anything looked like it could be a virus of some sort. I ended up finding a suspicious process that had a whole bunch of random letters like ywxsbz.exe. I decided to end the task and it came up as a different process like rsgbatd.exe. Unfortunately I couldn't find any info on the process through google, and I think its malware. I even tried searching for the process with the windows search button, but I still have no luck of finding it. I'm really stumped :icecream: anyone got any ideas? Thanks-minkster

[xneoangel]

Maybe the proccess is hidden within the occult archives of the computer did u search trough hidden archives too?

Hmm and also you say that different proccesses appear on the computer it may not be malware but a trojan try running an antivirus.

[minkster]

Yeah, I should scan his computer, his norton antivirus has been expired for like a year. I could only imagine what shit buildup is on his comp :P I will try searching through the archives. And what I mean by the different processes is that once I end that process, its immediately replaced with another one with different letters. And once I end that one, the same thing happens again. Its real frustrating, but I will take your advise and see what happens thanks.

[tye stik]

Get "AVG Free Edition". Its a free virus scanner thats actually really good. I prefer it over Norton any day. It updates, like, weekly and has some cool features... heres the link... http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5

[minkster]

Thanks, the worst part is this kid has AOL and he can't even download anything from the internet (damn parental controls). I'll probably download it onto a USB jumpdrive. Um...should I uninstall norton before downloading it on his computer? I don't know if it will have any conflicts.