Hey there. A day or so ago, I was surfing the internet, when I came to a page that asked me to install a file to view a movie. I, not thinking, installed it. Usually I'm very good about avoiding that sort of thing, but I guess I was tired. In result, I earned my first virus (or something) that visually did something to my laptop.
I'm trying hard to remember what it did, exactly, but a lot happened, and even more of it was brief. My background changed itself to a blue screen with a yellow box that said something along the lines of, "Warning! There is Spyware on your computer. Install an antivirus program immediately." Or something. I'd post a screenshot, but after following the Read this before requesting malware removal help forum, it went away. Let's see... My computer slowed down immensely, it would occasionally show the Blue Screen of Death, and the error would always be something different and weird. I can't remember any of them, but they all seemed like something that wouldn't even be on the computer. Every now and then, the blue screen would cause my computer to reboot, and when it loaded back up, I would get a pop-up error saying something about a script error, and M-Dos would run through something quickly (said it was a system32 file?), and I would usually get a BSoD after that too.
I really can't remember anything else. Like I said, everything that happened was quick, so I didn't get much time to ponder or write it all down. I know that all this has caused Firefox to quit working, and for awhile, IE would close itself down after loading the homepage. I was able to get Firefox to work once or twice (I don't know how) but now it just shows a Close Firefox error that says Firefox is already running. Task Manager claims that it is not.
I had run a couple other programs before following "Read this before requesting malware removal help." Spybot and a-squared a couple times. Both found different things. Spybot found zlob.downloader.vcd, but everytime I'd reboot, it'd find it again. A-squared usually found small adware programs that it claimed weren't dangerous.
Other than that, I followed "Read this before requesting malware removal help" to a T, but neither Super Anti-Spyware or MalwareBytes found anything. I'm not sure if I still have the virus, or if it was removed by Spybot or a-squared, and the remaining problems (Firefox still won't boot, computer is very slow, occasional freezes) are just left-overs.
If anything, I would like help getting Firefox to work. It's my main browser, and I feel weird using IE. Besides, one of the times Firefox -did- open, I noticed that my bookmarks had been deleted and I would like to work on getting those back as soon as possible.
And now, the HijackThis log. Thanks for any help you can give me.
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