You are a bit short on RAM you have Total physical RAM: 383.48 MB which even for XP is pushing it
CAUTION : This fix is only valid for this specific machine, using it on another may break your computer
Open notepad and copy/paste the text in the quotebox below into it:
C:\xmplay
EmptyTemp:
CMD: bitsadmin /reset /allusers
Save this as fixlist.txt, in the same location as FRST.exe
Run FRST and press Fix
On completion a log will be generated please post that
What is this process actually doing? C:\xmplay is the location of xmplay, the music player that I always use on a regular basis. I have it installed on all my computers with Win32 OSes that have sound cards. I didn't even install it on here specifically, I copied it off my desktop a long while back and that's how I've copied it to all my systems. This is the exact copy I have on all my computers. If you're saying this is a infected file, that would mean that
all my systems are infected, even my Windows 98 and 2 other XP computers. I did have it running while I was doing the scan so that's why you see it as a running process. I actually even have it running now as I type this message, so, is this going to damage the files in any way because I don't want to loose my 290 song playlist.
THEN
Please download AdwCleaner by Xplode onto your desktop.
- Close all open programs and internet browsers.
- Double click on AdwCleaner.exe to run the tool.
- Click on Scan.
- After the scan is complete click on "Clean"
- Confirm each time with Ok.
- Your computer will be rebooted automatically. A text file will open after the restart.
- Please post the content of that logfile with your next answer.
- You can find the logfile at C:\AdwCleaner[S1].txt as well.
I haven't noticed any adds popping up on my system that would suggest that I have adware on it. Did you see something running that I didn't, because I haven't noticed anything on this OS that isn't normal. I'm pretty sure the infections are only on Windows 2000 on my other partition(C: is for Windows 2000 & 95 while XP in on D: ). I have noticed some adware on Windows 2000 though I will admit, and this is going to remove the stuff on that operating system even if I'm not booted into it at the moment and can't run it from within that environment specifically? I just want to make sure before I do anything else on here.
Also, by the way, thank you for pointing out in bold that I have 383.48MB of RAM. That was actually a upgrade that I recently did so that Firefox 30 would load faster. Before this upgrade, I was running only 200MB of RAM. This is more RAM than my other XP systems though, my desktop has 256MB and my other laptop does also. I am aware of all my system's hardware because I've done work on all of them and haven't taken a singe one of them to a repair shop before ever, I like to do all that stuff by myself instead. I'm basically just cleaning up the mess of viruses the previous owner left behind on that partition without knowing it.