On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:53:29 -0500, "Daave" wrote:


Robin Bignall wrote:
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:40:34 -0500, "Daave" wrote:

Robin Bignall wrote:

The message is:
infection:documents and settings\robin bignall\cookies\index.dat
could not be removed. file is no longer existent.

Googling the above didn't turn up many hits, which already points to
malware. I did manage to find a very similar message (with
"available" replacing "existent") he

http://translate.google.com/translat...tent%26hl%3Den

Another possibly relevant hit:

http://forums.techguy.org/malware-re...lp-please.html

I'm 99.9999999999999% sure you have malware. :-(

This page should help:

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/...moving_Malware

(also cross-posting to microsoft.public.security.virus )

Thanks for your help. I spent lots of time last night doing full/deep
scans using Kaspersky 9, SAS, Asquared and Activescan2. Nothing
found. Am now starting MBAM...
Will look at your links after breakfast.

Sounds like you're on the right track. MBAM is quite good.

Sometimes, one needs to boot off a rescue CD. Check out these links for
more info:

http://www.free-av.com/en/tools/12/a...ue_system.html

http://www.techmixer.com/free-bootab...download-list/

(This way, the OS is entirely bypassed. Another method is to physically
remove your hard drive and slave it to another PC and use the
uncompromised PC to perform the scan.)

MBAM was clean. I'm now going to run everything in safe mode to
check.
--
Robin
(BrE)
Herts, England