Mushrooming COM Surrogate (dllhost.exe) Trojan.Powelik warnings, frequent crash notifications for IE

kbriddon97

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Oct 24, 2014
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Computer has turned into a turtle after being plagued with multiple COM Surrogate processes as well as Google Chrome processes which consume 99% of my CPU, and replenish themselves faster than I can end them.

Whenever I manage to close all the processes of COM Surrogate, Windows Powershell appears on the task manager, disappears, and then shortly after more COM Surrogate processes appear. Not sure if significant. FRST logs attached to thread. Please help me im desperate.
 

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Hello,



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You're missing Addition.txt report.
 

TwinHeadedEagle

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kbriddon97

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Oct 24, 2014
4
Symptoms have not abated even moderately after running both programs.
 

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TwinHeadedEagle

Level 41
Verified
Mar 8, 2013
22,627
We still have some work to do:



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Please re-run RogueKiller.
Temporary disable your AntiVirus and AntiSpyware protection - instructions here.
  • Right-click on
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    icon and select
    RunAsAdmin.jpg
    Run as Administrator to start the tool.
  • Wait patiently until the pre-scan will be done. It shouldn't take more than 2-3 minutes.
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