Virus: No Sound; Task Manager maxing out CPU

[wedge]

I, apparently, have picked up a nasty virus on my XP PC... Suddenly,
the sound card has been disabled. If I go to the Sound control panel,
everything is greyed out. It's functionless.

Also, when I launch Task Manager, the task manager process takes up
close to 100% CPU function, so my computer has slowed to a crawl.

Plus, I keep getting processes popping up like 364759283.exe and
18297354.exe. Always different, random number combinations.

And to top it off, System Restore has been disabled, and when I try to
turn it back on, that control panel is entirely greyed out, as well.

Any ideas as to what particular virus this might be? And how to fight
it?

 

[wedge]

Poking around this group, I heard talk of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. I
downloaded it, and ran it. It found 331 viruses! I deleted them all,
and now my comp works great. I'm not joking. I've been through this
before, and I've run multiple softwares, taking hours and hours to
run, finding hundreds of viruses, and still not quite solving the
problem. Malwarebytes ate everything for lunch, after an absurdly
quick scan of an hour and a half...

 

[Dustin Cook]

From: "wedge" <[email protected]>

| Poking around this group, I heard talk of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.
| I downloaded it, and ran it. It found 331 viruses! I deleted them
| all, and now my comp works great. I'm not joking. I've been through
| this before, and I've run multiple softwares, taking hours and hours
| to run, finding hundreds of viruses, and still not quite solving the
| problem. Malwarebytes ate everything for lunch, after an absurdly
| quick scan of an hour and a half...

MBAM may have found 331 instantces of malware or modifications to the
OS the malware made by I truly doubt that "It found 331 viruses! "

All viruses are malware but not all malware are viruses.

I'd be willing to bet it didn't find any viruses, as we do not look for
them. Trojans yes, viruses no.

 

[Dustin Cook]

What kind of steps would you take to be able to "certify" a machine as
clean ?

Thanks
John

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