Believe I acquired a virus today.

[Pirate571]

I came home today to find 200 or more messages from Symantec notifying me that e-mails sent to recipients that I did not recognize had been blocked by the server. I haven't seen anything like that before, and I can only believe that a virus is to blame. I attempted a full-system Ad-Aware and Norton AntiVirus scan, but my computer crashed before they could finish. A second Ad-Aware attempt found 15 negligible files, but at least 45 more had been found on the full scan that I was never able to delete. Norton hadn't found anything yet.

I'm looking for suggestions of what to do to purge my computer. I'm worried because if it's force-mailing things to other people, I'm sure others could wind up in the same situation. I'm not certain of where I acquired the virus, but I get a lot of stupid humor crap linked to me and I figure some form of that is where it came from.

Thanks in advance for any help or advice you can offer.
-Pirate571

[koala]

Hi, welcome to TSF

Please follow the instructions here, then start a new thread and post a HJT log here so a security analyst can help you.

Download HiJackThis from http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/HijackThis.exe

[Pirate571]

Sorry for the confusion, I have done what you suggested and I'll post my HJT log in the appropriate forum.

-Pirate571