HaloDiehards

Using the Windows 7 install disc, I got the computer up and running with repair, without having to reformat and lose my files and programs. I've discovered at TomsHardware forums that each hard drive company has utilities to test and repair their drives. I downloaded and ran the test tool, and the Long Generic test is a Pass so things are looking good so far. I understand maybe you can't give me advice about cnet, but I'm still hoping with all the information we pulled from my computer that you guys can tell where the viruses came from, does malwarebytes monitor stuff like that? It would be so helpful if I could know.

Well, it won't restore, so I'm going to have to try and re-install. Is there any way we can tell where I got the viruses? I sometimes will download programs from cnet, and I thought they scanned them there but I don't want to go through all of this again. I had started a podcast and I haven't been able to do it because I'm afraid to redownload the program that captures the audio from Skype. I need to rule out if any programs I downloaded there were the cause of the viruses that crashed my computer, so I don't have a repeat.

Oh jeez, I'd thought I had reported back :/ nope, every safe mode attempt results in the same thing. It looks like my only option at this point is to restore?

No, I just tried plain Safe Mode. I will try all the other Safe Mode options and report back.

I tried that, it says in my above post...

I uninstalled Google Chrome, rebooted my computer, and now it won't start up at all. I get: "Windows Error Recovery Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change may be the cause." Startup Repair says it cannot repair it, it's telling me if I've recently attached a device to my computer like a camera or portable music player to remove it and restart, but I haven't; everything attached had been on there already. I removed everything but the mouse and keyboard and it still won't start. Startup Repair will give me advance options, so I tried doing sfc /scannow in the Command Prompt, but it says it can't do that because it's waiting to restart for repairs (which it never tries to do after I restart, it all just starts over). Startup Repair also gives me an option to do System Restore, but unfortunately the only point is before we started fixing things in this thread :/ the only restore point is 10/23/2014 looks like right before we did the ComboFix. I've tried starting it in safe mode, and it says it's loading files, then it goes black and appears to restart, once again failing to start. Not sure if this is by design but there appears to be three "Drivers" folders ("Drivers" "drivers" and "DRIVERS") all at \Windows\system32\ according to when Windows is loading files in safe mode. So I do the restore, right?

I will go read the Malware prevention tips, but before I run OTL and uninstall ESET, I need to report that I am still getting the bad image error when I try to open Google Chrome. My computer has not done the CHKDSK error in quite a few days, and I can now open Internet Explorer (it was nerfed too) since stopping the process above with your help, but Chrome still gets the image error. I've been using Firefox since we started this process.

To add to the above, I just got this error when watching a vid and it ended the vid when I clicked ok: Could just be a fluke, but I include it just in case it's not.

It worked! Now here is something to keep in mind, in case you run into this in the future, because it didn't work at first: I also had Adobe Air installed, and when at first I installed Adobe Flash and videos still would not play, I thought maybe Adobe Air had also gotten corrupted, so I deleted both and reinstalled Adobe Flash once more, and now I can view video on Hulu

Followed your instructions, and when I tried to install the flash player, I got what appears to be the same errors as before: And when I press the ok button another popup: Pressing ok shows the SysWOW64 error popup one more time. Here are the contents of the ESET Online Scan:

Hey, I had Windows Updates set to automatically install, didn't think about it until this morning when updates installed. I've turned auto install off, but a couple did get through. Not sure if it makes a difference, just figured you might need to know. Malwarebytes didn't find anything as far as I could tell, so I couldn't really follow your directions since nothing was removed, but I think I got the log. I poked around in there and it looks like it still has the logs from the first times I ran it too, on the 14th and 17th of October, if you'd like to see those for any reason. Something that makes me nervous is I had ran the antivirus programs listed above, and then other things were happening like not being able to see anything that uses flash, and so I was trying to troubleshoot and disable them, thinking they were blocking me from re-installing flash. I couldn't find out how to disable them, so I uninstalled a couple of them through the control panel. I'm *pretty* sure I didn't delete any of them that I didn't do a quick research on first, but my fear is that I uninstalled one that had quarantined files I need and they got deleted.

Hello, Borislav, thank you so much for your help! Here are the results of the Farbar Recovery Scan Tool: FRST.txt Addition.txt What the heck is "Hosts content"? I swear to god I never visited any url called 100sexlinks.com lol

I'm trying to figure out if the issues I'm having are virus related or if my hard drive is failing. Wasn't sure where to start, so I posted at Tomshardware and got the recommendation to run Malwarebytes, as well as several other programs. I did that, and got a host of new issues, including having my restore points disappear, so I couldn't restore my computer. Other things have disappeared as well, because I could see Adobe Flash in my programs, but it won't work or show in my browser plugins, and I can't install it because of a bad image error. This morning I searched the bad image error and found a post here where someone got help after using Malwarebytes, so I'm really hoping someone can help me sort this. Here are the other programs I scanned with: Super AntiSpyware Avast Spybot Adwcleaner I removed Avast and Adwcleaner; Avast was throwing errors and causing all sorts of trouble, can't remember why I removed Adwcleaner. Oh yeah, I was trying to problem solve why Google Chrome wouldn't open, says "Google Chrome has stopped working", and also when I was trying to install Adobe Flash it says "Your antivirus must allow you to install software" so I thought maybe one of the new programs was blocking it. Part of what started all this was CHKDSK errors, which makes me think my hard drive might be going out, but it's a fairly new build, and it's the third hard drive. The first two were bad, seems weird I'd get a third bad egg. This one has been working for several months. And there's also an issue of possible virus in the USB ports, because in the last few weeks all of my memory sticks have become corrupted. Let's see, what else... I'm using Windows 7 Professional 64 bit, I don't know, let me know what you need to know and I'll willingly comply!