So, my computer the past couple days has been acting slow, even if the PC was reinstalled only a month ago and a new harddrive. My IT guy (well neighbor who works customer support for Dell)...scanned my computer with Norton 2012, MalwareBytes and Combofix...this was yesterday. Today he scanned with Tdsskiller. Norton and MalwareBytes found nothing. However, Combofix found something in C drive called "Installer.exe". Now that is important, because before I reinstalled my PC...Combofix kept repeatedly finding the file every time it was used, but I can never actually see it in the folder.
But, my PC is even laggier today and my IT guy (unavailable for a couple weeks) suggested I go to a tech forum and see if I can get any help. He suggested to run the scans again and again run Combofix. However, I downloaded Combofix and
Norton detected Combofix.exe has a trojan.adh.2...now I'm hoping this is a false positive, but is it possible that I have a nasty virus and it is infecting Combofix when I download it?
The other day Steam completely forgot all the settings for all my games and I had left it on over night, but it wanted to redownload visual studio files for various games and directx files. None of the games would run, either. A restart of Steam fixed it and it hasn't done it again, so it may have been a Steam thing.
But Youtube videos load a lot slower than usual or I have to refresh the page to get it to load, and sometimes a website doesn't load properly or some of the images on the site show up as a blank spot, and a refresh gets it to come up.
I'm not sure if this is really the appropriate forum to get help with that, but I have a Combofix log from yesterday, as well as a Malwarebytes log (which found nothing)...and TdssKiller found nothing, nor did Norton. I can post the Combofix log, if this is the right place to get help.
I'm mostly curious if a virus is infecting Combofix when I download it...do note, I got the same download my IT guy used yesterday from bleepingcomputer, the official site and the same download location. Or if Norton is seeing it as a false positive.