[pchelpers] Re: Do I Need To Reformat And Start Over?

Could be the blaster worm or some similar infection. A tool is available 
to remove it, but I can't be certain it's the one. A scan with 
Bitdefender often spots things the others miss. Go to 
www.bitdefender.com and download the free version, update it and scan 
for nasties. I would prefer a passive scan in a case like this. Are you 
able to use another machine to perform one?

George T. Cox wrote:

>Hi Folks,
>I would like to get your thoughts on this: I found on my hard drive a 
>SearchIt Toolbar that was cleaned out by  Spy Sweeper. But since then I 
>have continually been having crashes of my security software-AVG, 
>Spybot, A Squared, AdAware, Spy Sweeper, Sygate, HijackThis!, and 
>Spyware Blaster. I also am constantly being warned by Sygate that 
>Thunderbird and Firefox have changed since the last time I opened them. 
>I've refreshed the installation of all these programs and run Trend 
>Micro's online scan and come up with nothing. But the crashes are 
>continuing. The error message is that they have performed an illegal 
>operation and will be shut down. As a last resort before re-formatting I 
>thought I'd get your ideas on this situation.
>
>=
>
>GTC
>  
>
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