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Malware This is very interesting, the reason for this is that you have multiple anti-malware programs but I still don’t like the fact that this happens because Avast uses this folder to unpack stuff and test them for malware, but it either fails to find these malwares or finds them and doesn’t report them…
Let me know if I’m missing something…
Sadly, you will need more than one, not all of them will detect everything so here is the list I suggest:
1 – Microsoft Security Essentials; this one is the lamest but provides real-time protection, maybe Microsoft will assign a team of real developers to this one day; I truly think that this was done by a team of interns as a summer project 
Download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/
2 – SUPERAntiSpyware, this one is the real deal, it detects and removes Spyware, Adware and Remove Malware, Trojans, Dialers, Worms, KeyLoggers, HiJackers, Parasites, Rootkits, Rogue Security Products and many other types of threats, not the easy ones but also the hard ones, the ones that Security Essentials, Norton and McAfee can’t detect!
The paid version provides real-time protection and it’s only $9.99, I think it’s worth it.
Download it here: http://www.superantispyware.com/
3 – Malwarebytes, this one is also a great one.
Download it here: http://www.malwarebytes.org/
And yes, you need them all, make sure to update them right before every scan and you know what? I think you should install #2 and #3 now, update them then boot into Safe Mode and run a full system scan, I promise that you will be surprised!
To fix this, you must follow all these instructions without missing even one.
Note: do this at your own risk, these worked for me and if by doing these something
happens to your computer, I’m not responsible!
0 – Remove your browser’s proxy settings: http://www.library.kent.edu/page/14299 if you have special proxy settings, make sure it wasn’t altered…
1 – Restart your computer, hit f8 while booting and login to “Safe Mode With Networking”
2 – Download and install the free version of: http://www.superantispyware.com/
3 – Download and install the free version of: http://www.malwarebytes.org/
4 – Download and install: http://free.antivirus.com/hijackthis/
5 – Download and install: http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
6 – Download and install: http://forums.majorgeeks.com/chaslang/files/MGtools.exe
Save this file to c:\MGtools.exe and run it.
7 – Download and install: http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner
8 – Launch superantispyware and update it to the latest version.
9 – Launch malwarebytes and update it to the latest version.
10 – Removed for now due to potential error…
11 – Goto c:\MGtools and double click on DisableUAC.reg confirm the action.
These additional steps were added on 6/9/2010 and must be taken at this stage
a – You must rewrite your MBR (master boot record) this won’t delete your files but it’s required.
b – Instructions on how to do it could be found here: (or you could search on Google)
http://helpdeskgeek.com/how-to/fix-mbr-xp-vista/
http://www.ehow.com/how_4836283_repair-mbr-windows.html
c – *After this stage, do not boot into normal mode.*
12 – Restart your computer to “Safe Mode” (no networking this time)
13 – Run ccleaner, don’t touch the options just hit “run cleaner”
14 – Launch superantispyware and run a “complete scan” if asked let it remove everything
15 – Launch malwarebytes and run a “full scan” if asked let it remove everything
16 – Restart your computer to “Safe Mode With Networking”
17 – Run hijackthis, hit “scan” and then “save log” a notepad window opens, copy and paste
the contents into the textbox here: http://www.hijackthis.de/ and hit analyze.
18 – You will get a list of entries with a check box, or another icon in front of it, the ones
that get an X mark are problems so go back to hijackthis and check the box next to those
and hit: “fix checked”.
19 – Restart your computer to “Safe Mode With Networking” again.
20 – Launch trendmicro housecall and run a full scan, let it clean everything.
21 – Restart your computer to “Normal Mode”. Don’t open anything…
22 – Uninstall Java (all instances) then go here and download and install the latest version: http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp. Don’t restart yet.
23 – Go to: http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ run the update, update *everything*. Don’t restart yet.
24 – Update your browser to it’s latest version if you use IE, then step 23 should take care of it
but if you use other browsers go to www.google.com and search for: “update X” where X should be
whatever browser you have, like: update google chrome
25 – Goto: c:\MGtools and double click on EnableUAC.reg confirm the action.
26 – Turn off system restore so that it deletes the old restore points then turn it back on right away: http://www.pchell.com/virus/systemrestore.shtml
(Make sure that you create a new restore point right away)
27 – Restart your computer into “Normal Mode”
28 – Run hijackthis, hit “scan” and then “save log” a notepad window opens, copy and paste
the contents into the textbox here: http://www.hijackthis.de/ and hit analyze.
29a – If you don’t get any Xs then you are probably safe and you should run a full system scan using
superantispyware and malwarebytes over night; again…
29b – If you get Xs then you will need more help, a good place to seek help is here:
http://forums.majorgeeks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=35
30 – If this doesn’t take care of it, then goto: http://forums.majorgeeks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=35 and
seek help.
I hope this helps someone…
Good Luck
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