[AnthraX]

Alright, I have some pretty bad spyware. Usually spyware and viruses aren't an issue for me, but I guess I've been kinda slackin off lately.

Today I noticed that Counter-Strike Source was running rather laggy for me. First thing I thought was maybe it was due to some programs I had open. After a little bit of an inspection I noticed that my internet was constantly going, even when I wasn't doing anything. I've ran Ad-Aware, Spybot, MS Defender at least 6 times, and NOD32 twice. Half of the times I did them it was in safe mode. Everything is up to date, except for MS Defender which says there are no new updates. I thought that would have gotten rid of it, but nope, my internet is still being used constantly. It's not as bad right now however, it goes for about it a minute then stops for a little while, but starts again. I rad a HijackThis and heres my log:

Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 9:25:29 PM, on 3/2/2006
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\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Ati2evxx.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\WINDOWS\Config\svchost.exe
D:\Program Files\Eset\nod32krn.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\HPZipm12.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
D:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MsMpEng.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Ati2evxx.exe
C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe
D:\Program Files\UltraMon\UltraMon.exe
D:\Program Files\UltraMon\UltraMonTaskbar.exe
D:\Program Files\Valve\Steam\Steam.exe
D:\Program Files\Xfire\Xfire.exe
D:\Program Files\MSN Messenger\msnmsgr.exe
D:\Program Files\Winamp\Winamp.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\taskmgr.exe
D:\AnthraX's Folder\Downloads\hijackthis\HijackThis.exe

R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Page_URL = about:blank
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Page_URL = about:blank
R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Local Page = about:blank
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Local Page = about:blank
R3 - Default URLSearchHook is missing
O2 - BHO: AcroIEHlprObj Class - {06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3} - D:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Reader\ActiveX\AcroIEHelper.dll
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {53707962-6F74-2D53-2644-206D7942484F} - D:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy\SDHelper.dll
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [ctfmon.exe] C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe
O4 - Global Startup: UltraMon.lnk = D:\Program Files\UltraMon\UltraMon.exe
O8 - Extra context menu item: E&xport to Microsoft Excel - res://D:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\OFFICE11\EXCEL.EXE/3000
O9 - Extra button: Research - {92780B25-18CC-41C8-B9BE-3C9C571A8263} - D:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~3\OFFICE11\REFIEBAR.DLL
O9 - Extra button: Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Windows Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
O10 - Broken Internet access because of LSP provider 'xfire_lsp_9425.dll' missing
O18 - Protocol: livecall - {828030A1-22C1-4009-854F-8E305202313F} - "D:\PROGRA~1\MSNMES~1\msgrapp.dll" (file missing)
O18 - Protocol: msnim - {828030A1-22C1-4009-854F-8E305202313F} - "D:\PROGRA~1\MSNMES~1\msgrapp.dll" (file missing)
O18 - Protocol: talkto - {828030A1-22C1-4009-854F-8E305202313F} - "D:\PROGRA~1\MSNMES~1\msgrapp.dll" (file missing)
O20 - AppInit_DLLs: C:\WINDOWS\system32\win_160.dll
O20 - Winlogon Notify: Mixer - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\sndmixex.dll
O21 - SSODL: SysTray.Exgl - {636821FC-6F5C-2f1b-B164-E67214F678E2} - (no file)
O23 - Service: Adobe LM Service - Unknown owner - D:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe Systems Shared\Service\Adobelmsvc.exe
O23 - Service: Ati HotKey Poller - ATI Technologies Inc. - C:\WINDOWS\system32\Ati2evxx.exe
O23 - Service: ATI Smart - Unknown owner - C:\WINDOWS\system32\ati2sgag.exe
O23 - Service: Hardware Check - Stanford University - C:\WINDOWS\Config\svchost.exe
O23 - Service: NOD32 Kernel Service (NOD32krn) - Eset - D:\Program Files\Eset\nod32krn.exe
O23 - Service: Pml Driver HPZ12 - HP - C:\WINDOWS\system32\HPZipm12.exe

If anyone has any suggestions, that would be most appreciated. I really don't think I've over looked anything, and I didn't want to mess around with HijackThis because this is the first time I've used it.

[Emperor]

svchost.exe - this process is not running from the System32 folder as it is supposed to be.

Delete 'svchost.exe' from the following directory -C:\WINDOWS\Config\svchost.exe.

[AnthraX]

Well, I would if I could. I kept getting these stupid errors, that I dont know if it was at all related.

I didn't want to deal with that crap so I just redid everything from my earlier Ghost image. Norton Ghost rocks!