Fighting the dllhost.exe*32 virus...

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North America
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41 - 50
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Over 5 years ago or never
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Google Chrome
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Android
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Linux
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AVG
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DocKnock

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Nov 12, 2014
12
While on travel, received a frantic call from my wife that her computer was running continuously...and that she couldn't get it to respond to any of her commands. When I got home, we discovered that explorer.exe had multiple occurances. W\when I disconnected from the internet, I could kill each of these processes and it wouldn't ramp up again. She already had run AVG anti-virus. We ran the updates for Windows. I installed Malwarebytes Anti-Malware...ran it. It found a bunch of offending stuff, including a Trojan.Downloader.ED. This still did not solve the problem, so I googled further and learned that I needed to install some sort of root killer. So I installed and ran Kaspersky's TDSSKiller.

After this, explorer.exe stopped duplicating.

This morning, she found that dllhost.exe*32 duplicating processes. It seems that fighting this is above my paygrade...and so I'm hoping that you can help.
 

DocKnock

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Nov 12, 2014
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Thankful to find help fighting these vicious computer hogs! Uninvited guests!
 
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