Tons of viruses won't go away.

I've got a few annoying trojans that have been putting my CPU usage at 100% and popping up with some dialogs every once and a while. It's really, really annoying. I've scanned with Malware Bytes and AVG and while they both claimed to have removed the viruses, I notice no differences. The processes that seem to be the culprits are "svchost.exe", which I know about, so help me with that one and "temp.exe", which the description in task manager is "Recycler". I've gone to my friends but their solutions have had no resolution. HALP!

Are you runing the 32 bot or 64 bit W7? From what I've read, there are some difficulties in removing viruses from 64 bit systems.

Beyond that, have you tried an online virus scanners (like Kaspersky Online Scanner) or another Malware program like A-Squared?

You might like to try Hijack-This to solve your problem. I know that most forums that help cure virus problems will have you download and run the program and just grabbing the text file it creates and posting the output. Unfortunately, I'm not very versed on going through the Hijack-This logs but others may.

This thread may be more appropiate in the Security section

Is this a x86 or x64 machine?

As draceena has already mentioned, most tools do not yet run on x64 systems due to the way they run and protect the files. For instance running HJT on x64 will not enumerate the system sevices and show them as all missing when they are not!

If this is a x86 machine then most tools will run on windows 7 but there will be very limited support from the authors of dedicated special tools needed for the removal process as testing is still ongoing in this department .

I would try running DDS by sUBs which will create two logs and give us a basic run down of your machine, this tool is non evasive and will not remove any malware, it is for evaluation purposes.

Please download DDS and save it to your desktop.

• Disable any script blocking protection
• Double click dds.scr to run the tool.
• When done, DDS.txt will open.
• Click Yes at the next prompt for Optional Scan.
• Save both reports to your desktop.

Post both logs back in your next reply

I would also advise a rootkit scan by the use of GMER

Download GMER Rootkit Scanner from here or here.

• Extract the contents of the zipped file to desktop.
• Double click GMER.exe. If asked to allow gmer.sys driver to load, please consent .
• If it gives you a warning about rootkit activity and asks if you want to run scan...click on NO.
  
  
  Click the image to enlarge it
• In the right panel, you will see several boxes that have been checked. Uncheck the following ...
  • Sections
  • IAT/EAT
  • Drives/Partition other than Systemdrive (typically C:\)
  • Show All (don't miss this one)
• Then click the Scan button & wait for it to finish.
• Once done click on the [Save..] button, and in the File name area, type in "Gmer.txt" or it will save as a .log file
• Save it where you can easily find it, such as your desktop and copy and paste this in your next reply

**Caution**
Rootkit scans often produce false positives. Do NOT take any action on any "<--- ROOKIT" entries

It's moved now

Hey, I'm on 64-bit. 5GB RAM wouldn't be wasted on 32-bit in my eyes. Attached are the logs from DDS, but GMER refused to launch without an error message.

The "DDS" log is too big to upload here, so it's right here on RapidShare.

Thanks guys!

Alright, so my friend suggested booting into Windows XP, which is 32-bit and doing another Malwarebytes scan and then maybe it will remove them. So greetings from XP Professional and it's already found 139 infections! I've got my fingers crossed.

Figured you would have given up XP by now.

I'll cross my fingers too

Yeah, I know. I keep telling myself to get rid of it but after this... Nah!

Haha, wow, XP uses an older version of AVG and it's detecting more viruses without scanning than my x64, updated version did. That's just... Dandy!

Oh hey, are these actually viruses or are they vital system files?