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Windows Security Center turning off, Looks like Bidvertiser
Hi. I need help.
My Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit laptop is infected with some virus/malware.
The Windows Security Center is turned of. If I start it from Services, it gets turned off immediately or after some time.
Clicking on Google search results randomly takes me to advertisement sites after a couple of automatic redirects. This does not happen all the time, but often. The first redirect normally goes to secure.bidvertiser.com/....
This infection is the result of my own unbelievable stupidity. Last Sunday I was looking for a calculator on google and opened some of the results in new tabs. One of these clicks directly downloaded a zip file which had a google_photography_rates.exe file in it. In spite of the knowing the obvious thing to do, I went ahead and installed the file. The installation file immediately disappeared and within minutes Microsoft Security Essentials and Windows Security Center shut down.
Since then I have done the following:
1. In safe mode, run TDSSKiller
2. Run Malware Bytes Anti-Malware as administrator (No infections found)
3. Run Spybot - Search & Destroy as administrator (removed 2 registry entries that disable Windows Security Center. But these registry values reappear automatically after some time even without a reboot.)
4. Run SUPERAntiSpyware Free Edition as administrator (removed a lot of tracking cookies)
5. Run Norton 360 (No infections found)
6. Run Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (No infections found)
7. Run HiJackThis (results attached)
8. Run RKill (results attached)
But the problem still remains. Please help.