[mitchntx]

Any one ever get this cock-sucker of a virus?

I've been fighting this thing for over a week.

So far the best results have been unplugging the network connection and doing deep scans with

Hitman Pro
Ad-Aware
Spybot
Spyware Dr.
Enterprise Nortons
ESET NOD32

The problem I'm having is that the HD activity goes berzerk at boot, progressively slowing the system till it crashes about 15 minutes later. So as you can surmize, I'm having to do these deep scans in small chunks.

Frustrating ...

Any one have any other ideas?

[SS2win]

boot into safe mode w/networking, run combofix, malwarebytes, spybot, http://housecall65.trendmicro.com and http://security.symantec.com .

[mitchntx]

boot into safe mode w/networking, run combofix, malwarebytes, spybot, http://housecall65.trendmicro.com and http://security.symantec.com .

Safe Mode - check ( the only way I could get a full scan from any detection software to complete)
malawarebytes - not yet
spybot - check
housecall - check
symantec - check (corporate version)
ESET NOD32 - check

Ad-Aware - check
Spyware Doctor - check (PCtools editor's choice)


Opened my startup sequence listing under msconfig and found AdobeARM was loading very early. A quick search found not alot of infon on this program, but that it wasn't in any way associated with Adobe, according to the 4 or 5 independent sites I went to.

So, I deselected it and my runaway HD issue went away.

Any one know what AdobeARM is?

If I boot the machine will run in idle for hours and hours. If I open Office 2007 documents and yutz around in them the machine seems stable. If I surf the net, checking on forum sites like this one, it seems to be OK.

However, if the threads contain a lot of graphics, photos or embedded vids, the system locks in short order.

I uninstalled my graphics card (GeForce 8600GTS), drivers and NVidia control software and then reinstalled with the latest drivers and no difference in performance. Could I have a video card processor over-heating? The fan on card's processor is running.