Here's one....yesterday I visited only two sited, here and yahoo. In yahoo mail I delete everything in my spam folder automatically, the inbox I look over the list and if there's any I don't know or am not interested in they get deleted. Then I delete them a second time from trash. Yet I ran ASC and it picked up 6 more pieces of malware. Two sites only! I'm 99.9 % sure none came from WC. So now yahoo is suspect. Last night around 11 I logged off of WC. At 4:30 am I logged back in.  I'm not going anywhere else...yet. Process of elimination. This popped up while I was typing. Waiting for Photobucket to load. In the meantime I'm running another scan with ASC and already it picked up five more. Bear in mind I haven't gone anywhere yet. Trying to get to photobucket but the connection keeps resetting. Talk about frustration! I took a screenshot of the popup from Threatfire. This is bullshit! Three times after signing in to photobucket the connection reset and now won't load the page. Bet the same thing happens here when I submit my reply.

you are aware that you should format this computer including the mbr before you ever access the internet again? probably better if you format every computer you own.

it's not Yahoo, there's likely something running on your system that keeps dowloading all that malware.

You are already infected...and ASC isn't good enough for you/it.

You could try an online scanner...they tend to help because they are 'outside' of your OS...

Or you can reformat, as moshi suggests...

The www can be compared to a onenightstand you better use protection each and every time. Doesnt matter what you browse or where or what site even here you could get infected.

Ross you are most likely going have to do what Moshi said, boot to the Windows DVD and reinstall by wiping out and recreating your partition and reformatting, then continue to reinstall your OS.

I would suggest that you NOT keep a backup of anything currently on the hard drive, as it may be infected and start the whole problem over again later.

I would also suggest notifying the owner the wireless network you are accessing, as there could be something they are not doing that is allowing the malware/trojans/viruses to get through on their equipment also... you never know.

Yes...like preventing people from accessing it...

I installed an SSD in this rig several months ago and haven't run a scan yet, no need to, my PC is running fine.

If I download something I don't fully trust, I scan it when I download it, with several tools.

If you have a good system setup for virus/malware protection, and you practice good safety and use your noggin online, you'll not need scans so often.

Some people tend to overprotect, which can cause problems in itself.

Don't overkill on safety, don't over maintain the machine.

Just use it, and some common sense, and you'll be fine.

ROFLMAO!!!!

If the connection owner has a good router, and probably does if the signal is good enough for Ross to tap in, then he has a nat firewall in the router. May or may not be setup correctly.

Probably uses Windows firewall too, and maybe even a third party. 

Then Ross is no doubt using a firewall and 5 malware/av apps...(lol...sorry, Ross..).

A firewall/anti virus is only as good as the person who sets it's rules (sets it up).

This is where common sense and experience comes in.

If you download and install something, thinking it's ok, but it isn't, you have, by installing it, allowed it certain accesses.

Some apps can't be trusted and look safe until they're in your system.

Then, there are some apps, like Spybot S and D, for instance, that mark tracking cookies and such as malware.

All the malware/anti virus apps require the user to know some stuff.

Who needs malware when a Redneck can do the job just as well?

I believe Uvah said in the past that the owner allows him the access to the router.

I check my email all the time. I have Gmail and Hotmail and they are both based online.

Exactly.

I don't have access to this router, wish I did. Here's where I stand. Pressing the power button while holding zero should have restored it to factory specs. It didn't work after 3 tries so I changed the boot menu to boot into the rescue disk. That didn't work either and despite not changing it back prior to coming here, I rebooted, it still boots up normally. I'm all out of ideas.