have I picked up a virus?

clearingout

Hello, looking for advice on my computer.

I seem to have picked up something dodgy - my computer is suddenly much slower than it was and I am experiencing some new stuff:
a) advertising all over the place where it previously wasn't - mainly payday loan, gambling and mail order bride sites.
b) when I click on a link - such as 'forum' on this site, I get another page opening up in front of the page I actually clicked on - again, advertising.
c) on some sites, the odd word is suddenly green in colour, underlined a couple of times and clickable. If I hover over it, I get more advertising.

Any advice on where this might have come from and what I do to get rid of it?

debitcardmayhem

It may be worth running adwarecleaner and also worth posting a DDS log for someone like(well ok for) waddler_8
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/
and for waddler

Post me a DDS log - should take 2-3 minutes - then we'll see where we are.

Download DDS from the link below and save it to your desktop:

Link

After you've downloaded it and saved it to your desktop:

• Double click DDS to run it.
• Click Start
• When it's finished, DDS will open two logs:

1. DDS.txt
2. Attach.txt

Save both reports to your desktop.

Copy & paste the contents of just DDS.txt for now and post it here (you may need to split the log over separate posts)

clearingout

thanks - things are faster following the adware removal but still got the advertising going on. Doing the dss thing now...!

clearingout

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Hope that's what you were looking for! would be grateful to whoever understands these things!

debitcardmayhem

Hopefully waddler or another expert will pop along , did you click the clean button in adware cleaner?

waddler_8

Post the contents of attach.txt

It's suRf uaNd keep with all this installed the other day that's the problem.

2013-11-17 13:44:00	--------	d-----w-	C:\Users\Liz\AppData\Roaming\SkypEmoticons
2013-11-17 13:44:00	--------	d-----w-	C:\ProgramData\WinterSoft
2013-11-17 13:43:59	--------	d-----w-	C:\Users\Liz\AppData\Local\Programs
2013-11-17 13:42:13	--------	d-----w-	C:\Program Files (x86)\Sk_Enhancer
2013-11-17 13:42:02	--------	d-----w-	C:\ProgramData\YoutubeAdblocker
2013-11-17 13:42:02	--------	d-----w-	C:\Program Files (x86)\YoutubeAdblocker
2013-11-17 13:41:58	--------	d-----w-	C:\Users\Liz\AppData\Local\Packages
2013-11-17 13:41:58	--------	d-----w-	C:\ProgramData\suRf uaNd keep
2013-11-17 13:41:56	--------	d-----w-	C:\Program Files (x86)\suRf uaNd keep
2013-11-17 13:41:51	--------	d-----w-	C:\ProgramData\ca052060fd38ecc2
2013-11-17 13:41:28	--------	d-----w-	C:\ProgramData\InstallMate