Hi, yesterday I downloaded a freeware DVD burner (top rated on PC magazine) and when I downloaded and ran the installer norton immediately blocked a supposed trojan, so I stopped the installer at the first window, deleted it, and went on with my day. Later I noticed that my homepage for all my browsers had been hijacked by bing. No matter what I did it kept coming back up.
Eventually I found a program that was recently installed (I don't remember the name, but it was generic) so I uninstalled it, reset some of my settings, and everything was good, until I noticed norton block another trojan. At that moment a window popped up saying that windows could not find ytd.exe in my temp\install_#### (random numbers) directory. I then went through and cleared my non essential temp files but the ytd.exe was blocked by norton in another install_#### directory with different numbers.
After a while I had a few of these directories in my temp folder and they continue to appear at a random time. Norton always automatically quarantines the ytd.exe and says the threat is either a trojan or "goobzo". After scanning my processes, installed programs, and program files x86 folder I decided to try and use system restore. However, after loading up system restore I found that I didn't have any restore points. This I found very odd since they are created automatically and kept for a good bit and I had just that day installed a game from steam which should have caused the system to create a restore point.
I'm worried that I might have a malicious program that is attempting to download and install more malware secretly by running these ytd.exe files in my temp directory and that it deleted all of my restore points in order to keep me from getting rid of it easily. I've run a scan with norton that turned up nothing but I keep getting blocked trojans and errors saying that windows can't find these blocked files. I'm at a loss on how to attempt to track down and eliminate this virus so if anyone can help me I'd be extremely grateful.
Also if it helps I'm running Windows 7 home premium 64 bit with the latest updates.
Eventually I found a program that was recently installed (I don't remember the name, but it was generic) so I uninstalled it, reset some of my settings, and everything was good, until I noticed norton block another trojan. At that moment a window popped up saying that windows could not find ytd.exe in my temp\install_#### (random numbers) directory. I then went through and cleared my non essential temp files but the ytd.exe was blocked by norton in another install_#### directory with different numbers.
After a while I had a few of these directories in my temp folder and they continue to appear at a random time. Norton always automatically quarantines the ytd.exe and says the threat is either a trojan or "goobzo". After scanning my processes, installed programs, and program files x86 folder I decided to try and use system restore. However, after loading up system restore I found that I didn't have any restore points. This I found very odd since they are created automatically and kept for a good bit and I had just that day installed a game from steam which should have caused the system to create a restore point.
I'm worried that I might have a malicious program that is attempting to download and install more malware secretly by running these ytd.exe files in my temp directory and that it deleted all of my restore points in order to keep me from getting rid of it easily. I've run a scan with norton that turned up nothing but I keep getting blocked trojans and errors saying that windows can't find these blocked files. I'm at a loss on how to attempt to track down and eliminate this virus so if anyone can help me I'd be extremely grateful.
Also if it helps I'm running Windows 7 home premium 64 bit with the latest updates.