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Infection, erratic running

Asked by Sa11y in Miscellaneous Security, Windows 98 Operating System

Tags: Infection, erratic running

Hi, over the last couple of weeks on startup I get a message telling me bad sectors have been detected on my hard disc.  A graphic is shown with I assume the bad sector marked,  can I do anything about this ? Another thing perplexing me is, after shutting down properly the previous night, on startup scandisk starts after telling me that I didn't shut down properly ? On top of all this I think I'm infected ? I ran Ad-aware and got the usual few cookies, which I got rid of, I ran SpyBot and was congratulated on no problems found, I then ran A squared and......................
a-squared Free - Version 3.0
Last update: 08/12/07 21:00:05

Scan settings:

Objects: Memory, Traces, Cookies, C:\
Scan archives: On
Heuristics: On
ADS Scan: Off

Scan start:      09/12/07 00:05:58

Value: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{8C11E411-860C-4BAE-A0F4-CBE8DAE6B84C}\InprocServer32 --> ThreadingModel       detected: Trace.Registry.Blubster
Value: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{9583E033-1CCC-446E-A858-317A0620EE66}\InprocServer32 --> ThreadingModel       detected: Trace.Registry.Blubster
Value: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{9E6A5B24-1FBC-42D9-870D-07D5C5738075}\InprocServer32 --> ThreadingModel       detected: Trace.Registry.Blubster
Value: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{EA6DA0D5-1021-4F55-ACBA-D1D8BA7EAB2C}\InprocServer32 --> ThreadingModel       detected: Trace.Registry.Blubster
Value: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{EE12598F-BD9F-4BAD-BB13-D49829A024FE}\InprocServer32 --> ThreadingModel       detected: Trace.Registry.Blubster
Value: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{8C11E411-860C-4BAE-A0F4-CBE8DAE6B84C}\InprocServer32 --> ThreadingModel       detected: Trace.Registry.Blubster
Value: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{9583E033-1CCC-446E-A858-317A0620EE66}\InprocServer32 --> ThreadingModel       detected: Trace.Registry.Blubster
Value: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{9E6A5B24-1FBC-42D9-870D-07D5C5738075}\InprocServer32 --> ThreadingModel       detected: Trace.Registry.Blubster
Value: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{EA6DA0D5-1021-4F55-ACBA-D1D8BA7EAB2C}\InprocServer32 --> ThreadingModel       detected: Trace.Registry.Blubster
Value: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{EE12598F-BD9F-4BAD-BB13-D49829A024FE}\InprocServer32 --> ThreadingModel       detected: Trace.Registry.Blubster
c:\program files\pcsecurityshield       detected: Trace.Directory.Privacy Defender 3.0
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\dbxDgrevCheck.dll       detected: 32.SdBot.gen
C:\WINDOWS\hosts       detected: fÜî{ÝqyõÖz0¾Ð_

Scanned

Files:       496531
Traces:       152117
Cookies:       52
Processes:       23

Found

Files:       2
Traces:       11
Cookies:       0
Processes:       0
Registry keys:       0

Scan end:      09/12/07 02:47:43
Scan time:      02:41:45
I read somewhere about the first two problems, and am confused as to whether they are nasties or not ? But that other hideous sounding thing has got me worried, so I quarantined them all until I have asked the experts.  This morning on startup as usual my AVG scanner was running and it immediately came up with,
C:\WINDOWS\hosts  Reading Error. Obviously I noticed that this is the same location as that thing above, which I thought I had quarantined earlier this morning ? I would appreciate any help on this matter, but not too technical please, as I really do not know my way around computers, and do NOT understand the 'speak' which seems to be the norm. I thank you in advance.
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