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Alright guys tell me whats wrong and how to fix it. A few days ago I
picked up some kind of Virus or Malware or Spyware. Suddenly my
internet explorer would load up and start going to various websites all
by itself. I also noticed that a process called "16 Film Deaf.exe"
would run and use 100% of the cpu. All of this happened at about the
time that I installed a program called "GalaPlayer-1.4.0.0-setup.exe".
I am not blaming galaplayer but the problems started thereafter. I
could have picked it up on some website as well. Who knows.
What I've done so far is uninstall IE version 7 because I don't use it
anyway. I use Firefox all the time. So now I don't get the popups from
IE but "16 Film Deaf.exe" still starts up every now and then and runs
at 100% cpu every time. I've run a full system scan with Computer
Associates antivirus, SpyBot Search and Destroy, and Windows Defender.
I discovered that I had many variants of the Win32 virus and that was
fixed but nothing else was ever found. I reran CA antivirus, Spybot,
and Windows Defender but they all say nothing is wrong but something is
obviously wrong because I still get "16 Film Deaf.exe" every now and
then. It's a hassle because I have to go into task manager every time
to stop it and it just keeps coming back. How can I back trace that
stupid executable to find out what is creating it so I can fix the
problem. Task Manager doesn't even tell me where the file is or what
created it. I did a search for it but all I ever find is a prefetch
file called "16 FILM DEAF.EXE-09560D49.pf".
Finally, I have another question. Is it typical for the number of
processes to increase by about 13 after installing an antivirus
program. I ask because my task manager would always show approximately
20 processes but after installing CA antivirus I now have about 32
processes every time. Hard to believe but they all seem legitimate.
Thanks guys for any help you can provide. It would be very welcomed.

download ccleaner.exe and clean the regestry of infected files such as that 16deaf.exe thing and then restart the comp and it should turn out okay

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