Help! iexplorer keeps launching in hidden mode...

To whom it may concern,

I am very much computer litererate, but I am having trouble trying to figure out an infection I had acquired a couple days ago...

Let me start from the beginning. I was searching for AGM Battery prices (because I am joining the "Green" revolution) when I stumbled upon a web site that looked like it was going to provide a movie clip about them. Of course, I was prompted that I didn't have the required media codec and I replied "Yes" to download it... Does it need to be stated that I had a "brain far"?!?!? I know better!!! But I went and did it anyways.

In any case, now I have symptoms of iexplorer.exe constantly starting up in the Task Manager Processes and IE never launches (so my guess is that IE is launching in hidden mode). For what reason, I do not know. I hazard to guess that it wants to send out information or to download something, but this is purely speculative on my part.

I have also noticed DOS windows appearing where is shows that a file called dkxrstqqlx.dll is being copied someplace.

I've also had instances where a reference to a file called _18be6784.exe is trying to be written to the registry. Of course, I've denied this from happening.

I also get the fake "Warning: Possible Spyware or Adware infection." message in Internet Explorer.

In any case, I have a HighjackThis log file and I will try to provide it with this msg. I hope this works. I really need help on this one.

Thanks,

Christopher

I apologize for the very long delay. We have a huge backlog of HijackThis Logs to handle and it has been taking us greater time than normal to get caught up. If you are still having a problem, and want us to analyze your information, please post a brand new HijackThis log, along with a description of any problems you are experiencing. If we do not hear back from you within a couple of days we will need to close your topic.

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Thank you for your patience.

Please close this thread... I could not wait any longer, so I simply rebuilt my system.