Driving me up the wall and through the wall.

[vastchoirs]

I hope this is the correct forum, and I can finally receive some help with this.

A little back-story here. A few days ago, out of nowhere it seems, this window popped up called "System Tool 2011", and ran like anti-virus program. I stopped it, which then triggered my desktop changing to this text, no programs opening, only pop-ups claiming the selected files were infected etc.

So, I rebooted into Safe Mode with Networking, downloaded Malwarebytes, rebooted into Normal mode, and ran the program as soon as it came up, before all those pop-ups came on. Oh, I did update Malwarebytes as well.

Well, I ran the program, and it worked like a charm. It found the System Tool file, along with a couple of others, Quarantined it, and deleted it. I went looking for the files I read online to look for in the Registry but, they were not to be found.

So, great it worked. Well, yesterday it happened again at around 2:30pm EST>. I did exactly what I did the day before, and it found the file, and deleted it etc. Everything was fine until...alas...it happened again today at 2:12pm.

So, I'm at my wits-end here. Obviously, it's still somewhere on the PC, and seems to execute around the same time in the afternoon. I read on here about a file called combofix.exe, and about renaming it to combo-fix.exe. That to run it, you have to disable any anti-virus, Spybot etc. I tried to Disable AVG 8.5 as instructed but, when I went to run combo-fix.exe, it could not run, saying I had to uninstall AVG. When I tried to uninstall AVG, it will not allow me....grrrr.

So, I desperately need assistance in getting this System Tool 2011 gone for good. My info on the PC is as follows:

Windows XP Professional (Version 2002).... SP3

AMD Athlon, Dual core 2.21 GHz

1.50 gigs of RAM

Downloaded and updated Malwarebytes

Have AVG 8.5 Anti-virus and updated

Have Spybot Search and Destroy

Browsing Internet using Mozilla FireFox

Currently online using Safe Mode with Networking.

Thank you for ANY help I can get.

Vinnie

[wildman424]

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