Computer Help: Lavasoft Scan

For the past week I've been going through hell with my destop. SP2 was somehow installed and finally after hours with the tech people at Dell I just went ahead and did a system restore and it's gone. I'm now having a problem with the task manager showing that the cpu usuage is at 100%. Spybot showed one thing, fastclick, and removed it. Downloaded the Lavasoft adaware program and did a fullsystem scan last nignt. Took forever so went to bed and now am looking at the scan and it is huge. I'm on the scanning results page and don't know what to do now. Do I check all the boxes and remove everything? The vendors are all in red. The top two are the red exclamation point. Most are blue or yellow boxes that look like presents with a bow on them, some are yellow folders and some are white folders with a blue band on the top and there are yellow circles with a red x. Most say data miner,a few misc and a couple malware. Vendor is IBIS Toolbar, Alexa, MyWay.S,Tracking, Claria, IPInsight,MSView,Other. A bunch of them say you must restart and rescan to remove this program.
I can't believe that there is so much here and I don't want to remove something that would be needed but they all seem to be bad.
The process in the task manager is something called TBPS.exe that is going at 98%. I found that in a scan and it's in a folder that says toolbar. Everything started happening last Saturday the 13th when
SP2 was downloaded. I found the date of download in a drwtsn32 log. The past week is 25% of the log. Didn't understand all that code but hangapp was repeated often and access denied.

Any help truly appreciated.

Ad-aware opts for safety over harm.

BTW, if you have a lot, it is probably easier to right click the selection field and say "Select All"

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so just click all the obj boxes and go to next? This tech stuff accesses parts of my brain that should be left untouched and after a week of this it's fried.

virus's or spyware. did you restore some documents before reinstalling adaware, or your antivirus.

Sypbot and Norton during the week and the tech guy did highjackthis with me. I did a scan of the disk drives and they had me remove some files. Probably other things too but I think it may be a two pronged problem that SP2 made worse. When SP2 was there I couldn't get to web sites without getting a ie message that the program had to shut down after a minute or two it would just freeze and and there was a flashing hour glass next to the cursor. After SP2 was removed last night I seemed to be able to go to any website and it was fast but the cpu was still at max.

if it was off, you can pick up new spyware and viruses in a single reboot if you're connected to a cable modem

first make sure the windows firewall is turned on. SP2 is also great for security so if you're starting from scratch you might as well pt it in becuase it's a whole rewrite of the security part of XP.

Then make sure you get rid of any malware that is on there. this will probably take several tools such as ad-aware and another good one is called a² http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/

to a router that has a firewall. I think? It's a linksys. Just got it in August. We have four computers hooked up. Three are hard wired and the laptop is a wifi. No one else is having any problems in the house but me.

If the stuff keeps coming back after you delete it, you might want to turn off System Restore, scan and delete with Spybot and Ad-Aware (again!), then turn System Restore on again. When you do a System Restore, any spyware that has been deleted is restored along with all your other files.

Disabling/Enabling System Restore on Windows ME/XP

edit: typo:silly:

Check and see if one of them is something called New.Net. If it is, stop right there and go look for one of the programs that, with one click, restores the Link Stack protocol settings to the registry. Put it in a safe directory and keep it around for when you need it.

Then, select ALL of them and just rip them the fsck out of there. Slash and burn. Rock and Roll.

Then, go run the LSP program.

While you are out there downloading, grab these programs:

Spywareblaster.

Spyware Search& Destroy.

SafeXP

PageDefrag.

KMCS Deluxe System Suite.

RegSupreme.

Install SS&D. Run it after AdAware. Get the last bit of cruft and install and run TeaTimer. Also, do the Immunize in SS&D.

Install, run, update and lock down with Spywareblaster. This is a must-have program. No shitter.

Next, run SafeXP and set for recommended settings. Apply.

Next, unarchive, leave in the directory and run PageDefrag. Set to defrag system files on every boot.

Reboot.

Install and Run KMCS and RegSupreme. In KMCS, run the Disk Cleaner. Generate scripts. Clean disk.

RegSupreme. Deep Scan, Select all, Fix, hit cancel. Quit. Cleans out all of the slack entries that really cruft up a registry. Never caused a problem for me, but fixed a lot of them.

KMCS again. Run Registry Compressor. Backup. Compress. Quit. Reboot.

Marvel at the new speed. I mean FAST. And you are now locked down against the spyware nasties.

Run Adaware and SS&D once a week to keep the spyware out. Upgrade the brainfiles on SS&D, AdAware and Spywareblaster before you do.

Run KMCS and RegSupreme once a week also.

Like I said: This regimen never causes problems and it is installed on a number of machines I have prepared for people.

mostly IBIS toolbar. I'm still checking off the boxes, there are pages and pages of them.

...much faster that way. :)

I'm trying to shut down from the task manager and it isn't. Usually if you click the shut down there the processes start ending but only half of them did and it seems stuck. Can I click on the end processes now or what? I have the task manager open and outlook, which wouldn't close. Lavasoft said to restart and rescan.

I scanned, restarted, rescanned, restarted and now the cpu seems calm. Will check out that firewall.