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XD @ picture. Use it.

HA! Ya, you posted right when I left to work. Thanks anyways Nikolas and everyone else here for steering me all the way through. My PC is as fast as it was when I first bought. AMAZING AVG software, I recommend it to everyone. 

WOAHHHH now... 

I think I finally got rid of it. How strange, it no longer appears on my processes screen. It just vanished all I remember yesterday is that I deleted a bunch of old AGS games which I have been downloading into a file folder (I usually download AGS games just to check them out first before really keeping them; a big mess might I add). Then afterwards, I ran AVG Free edition. Either one of those two or combination of them somehow got rid of the trojan. Now that is wierd, but great news to me. No more having to end the task when shutting down my PC. AND my PC is really fast too!!! 

Finally the site returned for normal. And yea, this was a bad joke since it was basically the same April Fool's joke used last year except that it wasn't with Microsoft, it was with Sony. Nice effort in changing the site though. Don't repeat the same joke.

When can we get this gem of a game? *ADDS PRESSURE*

 

Flashstalker you need to close your browser completely (including downloads window if open) for changes to work. After you do that and do a complete restart it should work. Does the setting remain as you defined after that?
If not you might need to check if you haven't made the firefox folder Read Only (very unlikely but worth checking) and if not I'd just uninstall Firefox and reinstall again cos there shouldn't be any problems saving settings.

AH THANK YOU! That was the problem. I wasn't closing my other windows. 

I do that, but it won't save those setting when I open a new window.

I can't seem to save my settings when I change them. I want to put a site as my homepage and increase the text permenately. Every time I open a new window, I just get a plain white page. Is there something am not doing right to save it?

I have no friends who know how to do this for me. I'll try spybot rght now.

Well, I did the scan, but still it pops up. Though I noticed that if I restart the PC, the iexplore.exe end task won't show, but when I turn off the PC, it does show. No big deal I guess.

Alright, I went to Geek Squad at Best Buy and they told me my only option is a fresh OS install. Registery scan won't do any according to them. They said it would cost me $200 for them to do it for me and they copy all my files that aren't affected by any viruses. Sounds ok I guess but a little expensive. I might take their offer later on as I'll save some money for it. For now, I'll be fine as I don't buy online or anything involving money transactions. I'd do it myself, but it's too much of a hassel. I might even get a new PC down the line too. Who knows.

So ummm.. yea, I decided to live with this virus, for now... I don't do any online banking or buy things off the intaweb. But I will eventually buy a register cleaner later on next next to see if that corrects the problem.

If it somehow doesn't, I might have to do a clean OS install - only if I decide to do some buying online using a debit card (hate credit cards). And I probably won't do it myself, hire someone like may from Best Buy (if they do that).

Same here, error. :

How do I reformat? I did copy some back up data. I just don't know how to go about doing this without messing up my PC.

I tried a system restore, but it did nothing. I did however get the AVG, which is really good since it increased the speed of my PC slightly. It didn't detect the iexplore.exe, but it did find over 1,500 threats. I'm guess it cleaned those. And I still get that end task when I turn off my PC.

I even set the both iexplore.exe to low priority on the processes menu, thus I believe using my PC Usage to just 5%

I guess I can live with it, but someone tell me something, I need this answered as I've mentioned like three times but no one has answered it. Will it effect my PC if I keep having to end the task when I turn off my PC every time?

Well spyware did detected malware, but it can't delete it, but quarantine it which does nothing to it. Virus scan found no viruses.

Do you think if I buy a scan registry, will it fix the problem? Will this mess up my PC if I just leave it the way it is and end the task every time I shut my PC?

first of all go to your system manager tool and change the process from automatic start to manual start

this may help

How do I find the system manager tool? I'm not too good with the PC tech.

I'm performing a sypware scan at the moment to see if that fixes it. Then I'll run a virus scan which will take like 30 minutes.

And yes, when I open multiple windows with explorer, more iexplorer.exe show up.

I should also add that I did see the file in my progams file in the explorer and I deleted it yesterday, but it still shows up.

Backup is not an option for me, I have no external HD to save my junk. I guess I'll have to wait to buy the register scan.

It does launch by itself even if I only use firefox which I do. I open the Task Manager and don't see it, but if I go to processes, I see it running. It's obviously a trojan. Will a scan register fix this or not? I don't have one because they charge to get them, but I will probably get one by the end of next month.

What I'd really like to know is, if I keep having to end the task when I turn off my PC, will it hurt it in the long run. It's not so bothersome, but I would like to get this out.