My anti-virus program is going hot.

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Rock

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Ok, I'm guessing I caught something because my anti-virus programs (Norton Antivirus Gaming edition and Spybot S&D) just keep on scooping up AdWare.onestep's and tracking cookes. Various things I'd like to get rid of. I'm guessing I got some sort of program in my computer that doesn't belong here, yes? I'm currently downloading Malwarebytes to see if it can find something. I've searched with Norton Antivirus Gaming edition, spybot S&D, AVG 9.0 and soon Malwarebytes but no program found so far. Any hints on what I should do and are theese things even that harmful to either my computer or my integrity?

Thanks in advance.
 
About the only bad things that adware and tracking cookies will cause is popups. As long as you don't have any trojans or anythng worse, let malwarebytes remove anything it finds. Most likely you are visiting shotty websites and getting adware from it.
 
Glad to hear it isn't more harmful then that. I guess I can handle some popups while this thing is sorted out. Thank you very much for your reply.
 
After running malwarebytes you should post a hijackthis log so we can see whats running on your system.

Hello, please download and post a log with HiJackThis.

Click here to download HJTsetup.exe
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  • Continue to click Next in the setup dialogue boxes until you get to the Select Additional Tasks dialogue.
  • Put a check by Create a desktop icon then click Next again.
  • Continue to follow the rest of the prompts from there.
  • At the final dialogue box click Finish and it will launch Hijack This.
  • Click on the Do a system scan and save a log file button. It will scan and then ask you to save the log.
  • Click Save to save the log file and then the log will open in notepad.
  • Click on "Edit > Select All" then click on "Edit > Copy" to copy the entire contents of the log.
  • Come back here to this thread and Paste the log in your next reply.
  • DO NOT have Hijack This fix anything yet. Most of what it finds will be harmless or even required.
 
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