Ok some kind of virus has infected my pc and its hard to find. I did notice it launched an invasive scanning program in My Computer looking for "viruses" but it disappeared later. Now my computer is very slow, freezes a lot when I try to go online or open folders and when I open a folder it looks very strange with the top blue bar missing and the folder I opened looks like a cut out box you can see the desktop behind it almost like the folder wasn't there. I think my computer has also been heavily infiltrated by spyware to make the online use so slow. I just want to confirm should I do the anit-malware and anti-spyware and ccleaner actions in safe mode with my online physically disconnected? I downloaded and installed AVG free latest update but have not run it yet. I plan to do that in safe mode. I'm posting my Hijack This log as an attachment and my computer specs are below.
MS Windows XP Home Ed.
Version 2002
Service Pack 2
AMD Athlon XP 3000+
2.17 GHz, 1.00GB RAM
PS. Ok in the Add/Remove Programs in Control Program I found these strange programs :
AnswerWorks 4.0 Runtime- English
ESET Online Scanner
Image Resizer Powertoy for Windows XP
Indeo Software
Yahoo Internet Search Suggest and some Yahoo programs (I think I uninstalled those before)
I also noticed something weird about my antivirus. I cannot install AVG Antivirus and my computer says I already have an antivirus running but I was sure I uninstalled any antivirus programs before my computer got infected. This is very strange?? My Windows Security Center states I have antivirus but I cannot find the antivirus program anywhere!
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