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Does this sound like malware/hijack

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Name: privatedog
Date: February 6, 2004 at 09:03:14 Pacific
OS: XP Pro
CPU/Ram: P3 650 40gig, 320MB Ram
Comment:

Upon reboot I get many 'Autoplay' windows searching for something. RPC would reboot my system until I disabled it. IE will often give me Page Not Found. Volume control does not work and the sound card reverts from SB Live to #0 Modem. Also Notepad has stopped working - cant access with message stating cannot be run in win32 mode.
Also general computing is very slow.
Have spybot, adaware, spygaurd, spyware blaster, TZ Spyware, CWShredder. They all come up clean except for the occassional cookie etc. CWShredder did find 10 illegal entries in IE but did not indicate what they were - I cleaned it up but the problem still exists, particularily aggressive when I reboot. Also should note that I have the trial of Pest Patrol and it finds many things including IST, CWS, Navexel, Bridge etc. but I cannot fix as its just the trial. Not sure about false positives but why wouldnt the other programs catch these things? I can post a Hijack This log if applicable.
Thanks for taking a look, this problem started all of a sudden and is a week old now.



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Name: iceblue
Date: February 9, 2004 at 05:06:06 Pacific
Reply:

Clear out all your temp files.
Run any or all of these online AV scans.
RAV
Housecall
Activescan
Reboot and then post the Hijack log.


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