firefox problems

[Chris from Washington]

hey,
maybe one of you might know.

now that I got everything else fixed on this computer, I'm running into another problem.

Whenever I try and view page in firefox, my cpu goes to 100% and stays there. Even if I shut down the browser it stays at 100%. If I ctrl/alt/delete after shutting down the browser, in the running processes. It still lists firefox, and using 98% of my cpu?

any idea how to fix this? I want my firefox back.

I've tried unistalling, and reinstalling too. Doesn't help.

[Ryan from Ohio]

Did you ry running Spy Bot and Ad Aware? Sounds like E.T. is trying to phone home...

These darn Spyware deals have gotten extremely bad lately...

[Chris from Washington]

Fixed it :)

I had a virus earlier in the week, and I'm not sure if it was related or not.

but what I had to do is go into safe mode, then under documents and settings, find the firefox folder and deleted everything.

lost all my bookmarks and stuff, but at least it's working again.

[Chris from Washington]

oh,
I've ran spybot, adware, norton, and about 10 other virus scanners trying to fix this thing.

There was something in my registry that was causing a program to run, that would reinstall the virus each time. None of the virus checkers were finding it, I had to figure that out on my own.

[Ryan from Ohio]

Hmm whats was it called?

umgxy.exe or something like that?

Im having a constant problem on my work PC with that damned thing. Keeps reinstalling itself...

[Chris from Washington]

shoot I've been working on this all week, and now I can't remember what the name of the registry entry was.

I want to say cmls or something like that.

the virus itself was a trojan/qhost.

it would rewrite the host.ics file, and not allow you to go to any antivirus sites.

One thing to try, if you're having problems with it reloading. Turn off the system restore, that was part of my problem too. Norton would remove the file, then I would reboot, and XP would replace the file with a copy it made (the infected file)

[Ryan from Ohio]

My work computer is a WIN98SE platform.

But I have like 3 spyware's that constantly reinstall themeselves.

[Chris from Washington]

hmm, not sure about 98. I bet there is something in you're registry.

what I did was go into the run portion of the registry, and went to google and typed in each item that was set to run. On mine, one was listed as a potential virus. So I deleted it. That fixed that problem.