noticed my norton wasnt a running process so went to dig a little deaper no manuall scans using trend or norton products found anything so whent to online scan via trends site imediatly found worm_assarm.a but could not clean it so checked auto clean same problem deleted all temp and online temp files and tried again nope flushed my ram of everyting i could and all running process's that arnt system critical same bit the sluggish response and cpu utilazation tell me something is up but i dont think its assarm or why couldnt it clean it and why do none of the tell tale signs show tried a search (empty) organized by modified to see what changes have occured nothing stood out startup log is clean of anything as well that shouldnt be there any one know of a new stealth virus that mimics the appearence of assarm.a because nothing about this even remotely resembles what ive read or seen about assarm none of the servhost or win.ini crud or registry stuff thats typical of assarm but i definatly have activity and a port scan show a lot of http port activity ( im at work or id give more specs sorry) safe mode didnt help reinstalling norton didnt help in fact it auto disabled a clean install of 1. norton 2. trend 3. sophos what ever it is its got me spooked worse than klez ever did if no one can help i'll probably secure erase the drive 32 zeros but new machine just and i mean just got it configed way i wanted so any help deaply appreciated its isolated right now off my home netwrk and powered down to stop propagation but i was thingking of cloning and running emulated to test suggestions thanks in advance

hello try these scans free trojin scan http://www.trojanscan.com/trojanscan/scanner.htm panda scan http://www.pandasoftware.es/activescan/ d/l mcafee,s stinger http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/ test my sheilds grc https://nanoprobe.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 the klez was fameus for disableing av and stopping it from installing. you may have the klez by the sound of it allso check out removel tool for sobig it,s up to klez like tricks and more.

thanks for the speedy reply ill give it a try on those scanners and sobig didnt thing of it hope one of the other scanners is more successful saw another post from the 1st with apparently same prob and no solution yikes hope i have more luck thanks again

memory resident if the scan is only system it allows any scanner try to scan memory is shut down????