Malwarebytes skips the first 30 thousand files.

[Rustybaw]

Hi there.

A while back I posted regarding this subject. I got help from an expert, Maniac, but stopped at the point of running combofix. My fears of what I'd read about combofix stopped me from going forward. The topic has since been closed due to a lack of feedback, my fault, running the above was not something I wanted to do with a brand new laptop. To get to the point, malwarebytes skips from the first few hundred files whilst scanning to around the 30,000 mark. I've tried uninstalling and re-installing, the problem persists. This all started when I was redirected to a fake virus scan site. This has happened at least twice since. My anti-virus, Norton 360 now as I have removed Mcafee, and superantispyware along with malwarebytes have picked up little, in fact malwarebytes hasn't picked up a thing since. I still hold a hunch that my computer has an infection. Today I came across a topic on these forums that was almost identical although the virus mentioned was system tool 2011. Unfortunately the topic was closed so I couldn't follow the advice I was hoping for. What I have read on this though has prompted me to post again.

If any experts can help with any advice it would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[screen317]

Hello,

Can you describe in more detail what you mean by "skipping?"

Please download CCleaner and save it to your desktop.

• Run the CCleaner installer.
  
• During installation process, please UNCHECK "Add CCleaner Yahoo! Toolbar".
  
• Please do NOT run a scan yet!
  

Now, open CCleaner:

• Click the "Windows" tab.
  
• Select the following:
  • Check everything under the "Internet Explorer" section.
    
  • Check everything under the "Windows Explorer" section.
    
  • Check everything under the "System" section.
    
  • Check ONLY "Old Prefetch data" under the "Advanced" section.
    

  [*]Then, click the "Applications" tab:

  • CHECK everything there.
    

  [*]Next, click the "Options" button in the left pane, then click the "Advanced" button:

  • CHECK : "Only delete files in Windows Temp folders older than 48 hours".
    

  [*]Next, click the "Cleaner" button in the left pane, then click the "Run Cleaner" button (bottom right), click "OK" at the prompt.

  [*]When done, please exit CCleaner.

CAUTION: Please do NOT use the "Issues" button in the left pane. This is a built-in registry cleaner. If you don

[screen317]

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