This is a Security issue, but more!!!

No. And I am not (to my knowledge) using any proxies. Which address was did that resolve from? Was it ipv6?

I have always been ready to admit I was wrong in this. But I am still left with countless questions as to why so many things starting happening all at the same time, and virtually all in response to a defense of my actions which were either investigatory (no deletion or changing of files or the registry), and why it seemed to behave in this way with so many outbound UDP packets (according to Kaspersky) to the same address. And why would any OS feature, reach out and change permissions in accessing peripheral drives (the WD 500GB drive, flash drives,etc.) which not even the esteemed, invoke-only-as-needed "Administrator" user would be able to access or change on a stand-alone workstation (or more accurately, my laptop), unless they were doing something which from all perspectives I can envision seem furtive, possessing element of concealment, agression, and even a very real sense that at times, the OS was taking steps simply for punitive purposes??? And why after using Slackware (from a persistent changes, 4GB Flash drive) for a year, would my switching to a conventional HD installation of Ubuntu soon after all of these problems started cause a different but stable and highly regarded OS such as Ubuntu Linux to have adapter problems and odd environmental events such as the sudden disappearance of my ability to use iwconfig, or have ipconfig output look radically different than to what I am accustomed. I mean bash is bash pretty much and ubuntu worked fine for about an hour, then it was like my Luddite ghost had returned to wreak havoc on my life.....?????

Jacee
attached is the MBAM log.... All clear!!!


Attached for

FIrst, attached I included a HijackThis! log. I know there are many things that should not be there... I have deleted them before, and I just stopped even trying a few weeks ago...

But, on a stronger note, the following link is to an article that gives me a little comfort as to why I see many things I see....

Security in Windows 7: Firewall and Networking - Reviews by PC Magazine



Paul

Oh, and thank you Jacee for the helpful info...I feel relieved that there are other competent and skilled individuals who may not recognize some items as typical windows components. I will take all the steps you outline--I want to research this a bit more to know what kind of trojan this may be. Also, when you say a clean machine, you mean head on over to Kinkos or something right???? And by passwords, you mean any web app passwords, correct???

In connection with my last post and the link contained therein, what is everyone's take on having a third party commercial firewall? Do I need one???

Thanks as always

This is just to confirm the HijackThis log made it through the upload... Didn't see it when I refreshed...

Oh see the problem now....I forgot about those file extension limitations on uploads....

Strange... but though the file NZNEQPXT shows as active in HijackThis, it does not look quite the same in services.... see screenshot attached...

Also, I cannot enable the Administrator (which always happens when I cannot open a prompt "As an administrator"....

THe task manager no longer has the "Run this task as Administrator" checkbox (I have seen this before). My "RUN" in the start menu (which is a fight as it is to enable in the start menu properties) no longer has the "Run as Administrator" checkbox option... and "Runas" at the command prompt gives me some weird error like "class is not installed"....

I feel like Bruce Willis in Die Hard when he says to the all the police and SWAT on the ground below "welcome to the party!!" . This is only a fracion of the same stuff I have been seing for weeks on end despite wipes, reformats and reinstalls from a Microsoft download.... I know the installation disk is clean.....

So...at this point (if I did not otherwise have the internet up and running as I do now), I would usually reformat and reinstall.

As I responded above (mostly to Darkassassin who said my reformatting 40 times was excessive, and to which I agree) I believe I have tried most other recovery methods that do not involve a full re-installation.... but as I said in the post a few back, I am working from Administrator books for Vista, so if you have some idea.... let me know...

GIven all that I have said, if this is a trojan or a worm, could it be in protected storage????

Paul

So I did this. See screenshot...