Just reporting back. Found that my friend's PC was infected with the Linkmedia Tech trojan. Cleaned it with Combofix and everything's fine now.

Got it. Will get my friend to give it a go. Thanks for the advice, Touch. Will let you know how it goes.

Hi guys, I'm asking this on behalf of my friend. He's got these ads that keep popping up whenever Windows loads up. Tried using Ewido and that seemed to clean up some of the entries in HijackThis. We' ...

Just ran msconfig, and from the Startup tab, I see a rundll32 where the Command is rundll32.exe bthprops.cpl,,BluetoothAuthenticationAgent. I guess this would be genuine as bthprops.cpl is the Bluetoo ...

It's from Microsoft and the date modified and file size is exactly the same as the one in F:\WINDOWS\system32, being 8/4/2004 9:07AM and 33kb. I don't recall seeing this in the Processes tab previousl ...