Hello from a new member. What's next? I'm Jamaar, I am a compuholic.. ;-)

[Jamaar]

Hello,
I am a Dutch expat living in SW-Thailand. I am a retired spam-/scam fighter (Castlecops/KS-IBR) and reviewer (SiteAdvisor/WOT) and thought that I had more or less protected my system with Bitdefender Total Security 2015 (before free AVG + Win 7 Firewall), Malwarebyte's Antimalware Premium, WinPatrol and as back-up Trojanhunter and SuperAntispyware. Not so. Recently installed Bitdefender reports now and again that C:\Windows\Temp\Upx.* is infected with either Gen:Variant.Symmi.3032 or Adware.Generic.49477. The last days I only get warnings about a Trojan in a mining program, cgminer which is known to trigger FP's.
One week ago I have opened a ticket at Bitdefender, but apart from a confirmation mail I got no reply. The infection seems to get worse: computer slowing down, not wanting to shutdown properly, and today the complete content of one of my 16Gb Kingston USB sticks has disappeared without any warning.
I hope to be able to find faster and adequate help. I guess I will have to start a thread in Malware Removal Assistance.

 

[jamescv7]

Welcome to MalwareTips

Good specification from your system.

 

[Jamaar]

Thank you. As for the specs, I forgot to mention that the CPU is overclocked to 4.3Ghz.

 

[Dima007]

Welcome to MT

 

[Malware1]

Welcome to MT!

 

[Exterminator]

Welcome to MT Thanks for joining!!

 

[illumination]

Hello and Welcome to MalwareTips!

Slide on over to the Malware Removal Assistance, if you have not done so already, they will help you get this straightened up!

 

[akshay1189]

Welcome to MalwareTips !

 

[barti]

Welcome to MT!

 

[tonibalas]

welcome to MT and hope to enjoy this great forum

 

[Raul90]

Welcome Jamaar

 

[glasswitch]

Hi, and welcome, have heard a lot of bad reports recently re Bitdefender, sorry to hear of your problem

 

[Cats-4_Owners-2]

It is nice to meet and welcome you to our little community that is growing ever larger in heart as well as numbers! Your introduction was fascinating to read, and we'll look forward to reading more on the forums, that is, after you've gotten your system squared away. Best of luck as you team up with our malware removal experts!

 

[frogboy]

Hello and welcome to MalwareTips. I hope you enjoy your time here and stay active in the forums.

 

[Jamaar]

Thanks for all your greetings and kind words. I hope to see some advise on my problem soon.
Not waiting for it today though, as I am already sleepy: it's GTM+7 here. ~ Zzzzz ~