Hi. I have followed the steps in the "so i'm infected, now what?" thread, as well as some other things I've read around the Internet, and nothing has worked. Malwarebytes software detected a rootkit on my PC, which I thought I had removed, my computer is still acting strangely. Here's what it's doing: An instance of svchost.exe keeps opening in task manager and slowlying increasing in RAM usage, no matter how many times I terminate the process. Internet Explorer opens up with no tabs, even if I set it to show tabs in the window for tabbed browsing (this has never happened before). "there are no active mixer devices available" when I double click my volume control button. I can't change the volume on my PC at all now. Menu bar in IE will suddenly turn black for not reason and the task bar will go back to the classic windows style suddenly for no reason. Attached are the two files mentioned in the "so I'm infected, now what?" thread. I really hope one of you can help me out here. I'm afraid to pay any bills on my PC until I get this infection off! :S attach.txt dds.txt