I really hope you guys will be able to help me out. I'm not sure how I got infected, I've had malware/virus problems in the past few months but since I recently re-formated my laptop over the break I've tried to be really careful. Anyhow, the infections appeared after I rebooted my computer and my boyfriend was using my laptop last Friday. I have no idea what websites he went to, but a whole slew of infections have shown up and I'm not sure what to do.
Generally, it is just a lot of pop-ups. It seems to be more problematic in Internet Explorer so I do not use it. While running Mozilla Firefox, I get pop-ups of random websites every so often, which I just close right away. I've been using Avast as my virus protection and it warns me every so often of all the infections. My laptop is a Compaq Presario R4000, running Windows XP.
I tried to do a System Restore to last Thursday (where it says it is the "Last Known Good Configuration"), but after my system reboot, it said that the restore was incomplete and could not be done. All the other available dates were after the infections appeared.
I followed all the steps in the instruction post, and logs are posted. When I did the SUPERAntispyware Scan, the scan finished, but the program crashed and my system reboot before it could remove the problems. Let me know if there are any other details I can include. Thank you!!
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