Annoying Viruses and Adware

Lately I have been getting a virus warning from my AVG software several times a day. It usually says "Trojan Downoader Horse Small 27.K" and it is always in my Local Settings/Temp folder. No matter how many times I delete them they always come back...any idea on another way to get rid of it? also, on the spyware side of things, I keep getting a spyware ad for "Access_Control" and can't seem to get rid of that either...When every i delete it or quarantine it, it keeps coming back....any else dealt with that one?

Some of these programs are very insidious; they will replicate themselves endlessly within your system and hide in many different places deep within your Windows registry. The last time I was infected that bad (courtesy of a Romanian crack site), I gave up trying to clean it out and ended up just formatting my HDD and reloading Windows as a fresh install...

- Boot to safe mode without networking

- Delete all of your temporary files, temporary internet files C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\ temp folders, C:\Windows\Temp folders, etc

- Delete anything suspicious in C:\Windows and C:\Windows\System32 that was modified in the last month or so (after researching to find what's legitimate and not)

- Clean anything suspicious in the registry HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Run and its corresponding HKCU entry, and find and delete any files they reference

- View the registry HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects, copying each key name and running a search on the reg for them, deleting both the CLSID entries, coresponding files, and BHO entries

- Delete anything suspicious in HKLM\Software and HKCU\Software in the registry

- Delete anything suspicious in C:\Program Files

- Delete anything hiding in the Startup folder of the start menu

- On a seperate machine, download Webroot's Spy Sweeper and install it on the infected machine

- Reboot to safe mode with networking, launch Spy Sweeper, get the latest updates, and run a full scan, quarantining then deleting anything that it finds

- Reboot your machine as normal, watching the Task Manager process list during as much of the boot process as you can, watching for anything suspicious

- Subscribe to Spy Sweeper updates for a year or more and activate them

- Download the MVPS Host List and apply that per its instructions

- Download Mozilla Fire Fox and register it as the default handler for web related files

- Download some alternative media player(s) and avoid Windows Media Player (which spyware constantly hijacks)


Anti-spyware is long since a 100% necessity just like than anti-virus. I'll take my own advice one of these days, but until I do, you should. Good luck.

Perhaps something like this would help?
http://www.x-raypc.com/

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Xblock Systems is pleased to announce a new freeware product to help technical users regain control of their machines and to assist spyware researchers doing log analysis.

This tool is not meant to replace your standard anti-spyware scanner, but serve as diagnostic tool to help identify questionable processes on a machine.