You guys are great, so far every machine that I've worked on I've managed to find what I need to get cleaned here.

Until now.

This one's running me in circles and I can't find where the loop starts. I tried to clean things already and thought I was down to the last few things, but now I'm almost back to where I started and it just keeps getting worse.

Now I'm at the point where AdAware won't even complete, it gets partway through the scan and then the system reboots, but I don't see what might be causing it. I even thought it might have been damaged somehow so I uninstalled/reinstalled and it still does the same thing.

So, after so long managing on my own, I'm here asking for help.

Here's the HiJack This log that I just ran:

Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 10:10:40 PM, on 11/20/2006
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180)

Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG Anti-Spyware 7.5\avgas.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\AOL\ACS\acsd.exe
C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG Anti-Spyware 7.5\guard.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\wscntfy.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\wuauclt.exe
E:\HiJack This\HijackThis.exe

O3 - Toolbar: Yahoo! Toolbar - {EF99BD32-C1FB-11D2-892F-0090271D4F88} - C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Companion\Installs\cpn\yt.dll
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [MSConfig] C:\WINDOWS\PCHealth\HelpCtr\Binaries\MSConfig.exe /auto
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [!AVG Anti-Spyware] "C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG Anti-Spyware 7.5\avgas.exe" /minimized
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [UserFaultCheck] %systemroot%\system32\dumprep 0 -u
O16 - DPF: {193C772A-87BE-4B19-A7BB-445B226FE9A1} (ewidoOnlineScan Control) - http://download.ewido.net/ewidoOnlineScan.cab
O18 - Protocol: start - (no CLSID) - (no file)
O23 - Service: AOL Connectivity Service (AOL ACS) - America Online, Inc. - C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\AOL\ACS\acsd.exe
O23 - Service: AOL Spyware Protection Service (AOLService) - Unknown owner - C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\AOL\AOLSPY~1\\aolserv.exe
O23 - Service: AVG Anti-Spyware Guard - Anti-Malware Development a.s. - C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG Anti-Spyware 7.5\guard.exe


I could swear that I've dumped some of these entries that I know can be gone already, but they're back, so I'm wondering if the changes were even saved. Either way, HELP, where do I go from here?



I just looked at this as I posted it and noticed that the one item that I thought was giving me the majority of the problems is gone, so I'm wondering if the last work I did actually did clear it up. Either way, I still have the problem with AdAware not running to completion, and I know it sees things before it dies.


Jim