Fixed somehow .... THANKS!

[Rhythm of Life]

I honestly can't believe this happened. I got a virus. I've run Avast, Comodo, and AVG and get no hits however every now and again my browser will open a new tab to someone's IP (guessing I'm now apart of someones botnet). Any other ideas to find and kill this beast?

[patriot_man]

Did boot up in safe mode and run avg?

[Marsoc1]

Internet options>connections>lan settings> make sure "proxy server" is unchecked

[Ricky-Ray]

May not be a virus but spyware/malware. use another computer and download malwarebytes from http://www.malwarebytes.org/ and save it to a thumb drive and reboot the computer in safe mode. Install the software and run a scan.

[SickofSoCal]

Stop visiting those porn sites......

[E Pluribus Unum]

May not be a virus but spyware/malware. use another computer and download malwarebytes from http://www.malwarebytes.org/ and save it to a thumb drive and reboot the computer in safe mode. Install the software and run a scan.

What he said.... malware is voluntarily installed when you download and install a "free" program. For that reason, none of the virus scanners remove it because by definition, it is not a virus.

[Rhythm of Life]

Forgot about Malware, I'll check that out right now.

Thanks guys.

[Rhythm of Life]

Ran a scan and caught 24 items, but I'm still having issues. Any secondary ideas?

[lazyworm]

You can download all the various different free/eval scanners and lather, rinse, repeat.
None of them catches everything, so it's best to use a few different ones.

Or you can reformat the drive(s) and reinstall windows, which will
generally take less time.

General advice...
* don't use IE
* don't click yes when a pop-up ask you for permissions unless you're expecting it.
* don't use windows if you can

[i1800collect]

Ran a scan and caught 24 items, but I'm still having issues. Any secondary ideas?

It would probably be faster just to reformat.

If you'd rather not, download a couple more spybot, malware, and virus scanners and run them all. As someone else said, none of them will catch everything by itself.

You've used Malwarebytes I assume.

SuperAntiSpyware

Spybot S&D

Microsoft Security Essentials

[SCB5794]

It would probably be faster just to reformat.

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+1

[FluorideInMyWater]

Ran a scan and caught 24 items, but I'm still having issues. Any secondary ideas?

run system restore from safe-mode. pick a date a week or so b4 u started having the problems.

[Ricky-Ray]

If the virus scan and spyware/malware scan didn't fix it in safe mode then I would just copy my data off of it and reformat, and be back up and running in a few hours.

[Rhythm of Life]

I was hoping it wouldn't come to this but I guess I'll have to reformat .... somehow. My license key for my OS has disappeared ><

Once again thanks for the tips everyone.

[Ricky-Ray]

I was hoping it wouldn't come to this but I guess I'll have to reformat .... somehow. My license key for my OS has disappeared ><

Once again thanks for the tips everyone.

There are free programs out there that will help you recover the system key for Window's and Office. Do a google search and you'll be able to find it.