Do you think this could b a virus?

[easyrider003]

I caved in and purchased a Gateway FX desktop. The specs on it are as follows:

8gb RAM
1TB Hard Drive
Intel i7 860 processor
ATI Radeon 5770 Processor
500 Watt Power Supply
Windows 7 64 Bit

This system operates my Flight Sim X, all settings at Max.

So let me start from the beginning.

I get to work on Monday and decide to charge my iPod on the Fire Station computer. Later that afternoon, the station computer starts acting up and we run a virus scan on the computer. There were 300+ viruses or whatever found.

Tuesday, I purchased a Gateway FX computer. When I got home, it works like a charm. The only problem I had was with X Plane 9 being installed but no big deal.

I work 48 hours and have 24 hours off. Yesterday, when I got home, I get online and operate everything on the computer with no problems at all. I decided I could recharge my iPod. I installed iTunes also.

After the iPod was charged, I unplugged it. That was when the problems seemed to start.

I should also mention that I downloaded a few addon scenes and aircraft from the website flyawaysimulation.com.

Here are a list of some the problems I am having:
1) Sometimes at startup, the screens that normally popup, will not.
2) If I click on the start menu, sometimes when it opens I can not get it to close and the computer seems to freeze up.
3) When windows explorer is opened, sometimes it may actually go to the home screen, but lets say I want to browse youtube. After typing in youtube in the address bar and pressing enter, it will try to swap over to the website, but it will only have a blank white screen and at the very top it says (not responding)
4)I had to uninstall FSX yesterday and during installation it would freeze up. So I would have to restart the computer and had no luck yesterday getting it installed completely. I got up early this morning before coming to work to try a reinstall. Same problem. I had to restart the computer. I tried reinstalling but had to leave for work before it was finished so not sure if it actually worked.

I did finally manage to run the anti virus that came on the computer which was Trend AntiVirus. Not sure how reliable that program is though. As I was getting ready to go to bed last night, it seemed to have frozen and I was getting irritated with it so I left it alone. Got up this morning and it had completed and said that it had detected and fixed 2 possible threats

I went out to eat last night, and as I was leaving it locked up but I didnt have time to mess with it. Got home and it had completely locked up. I know it wasn't good for the computer to do this but the only way that I had to restart the computer was unplug it.

My thoughts are that possibly when I plugged in my computer at work, a virus got onto my iPod touch and was transferred onto my computer, am I correct? The iPod seems to be working fine though. I do have AVG Internet Security installed also.

Would it be possible that maybe the CPU Fan isn't working properly and the processor is overheating and locking up? It is under warranty so hopefully that will cover some cost of the work being done.

It was purchased from Best Buy so I guess I will have to get my wife to take it by there today.

Any help you guys could offer would be GREATLY appreciated.

Thanks,
Michael

 

[johnb35]

If you have AVG and Trend Micro installed, you need to uninstall one of them as you can't have 2 antivirus programs installed at the same time, they will cause issues.

If you think you are infected please run the following procedure.

Please download Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware from here or here and save it to your desktop.

• Double-click mbam-setup.exe and follow the prompts to install the program.
• At the end, be sure a checkmark is placed next to
  • Update Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
  • and Launch Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
• then click Finish.
• If an update is found, it will download and install the latest version. Please keep updating until it says you have the latest version.
• Once the program has loaded, select Perform quick scan, then click Scan.
• When the scan is complete, click OK, then Show Results to view the results.
• Be sure that everything is checked, and click Remove Selected.
• A log will be saved automatically which you can access by clicking on the Logs tab within Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware

If you continue to experience problems after doing this, please post a HijackThis log by doing the following:

Download the HijackThis installer from here.
Run the installer and choose Install, indicating that you accept the licence agreement. The installer will place a shortcut on your desktop and launch HijackThis.

Click Do a system scan and save a logfile

Most of what HijackThis lists will be harmless or even essential, don't fix anything yet.

Post the logfile that HijackThis produces along with the Malwarebytes Anti-Malware log

 

[easyrider003]

thanks for the help and the super fast reply. Other websites I have had to wait weeks for replies. This one is awesome. I will try to remove possibly the AVG and keep the Trend. It will be Monday before I will be able to give it a shot.

 

[johnb35]

I would also plug in your ipod and scan it with an antivirus/malware program. Sounds like you have have an autorun file on the ipod causing the infection or an actual infected file. I would definately not plug the ipod into a different computer until you get this sorted out.