Cookies dynamically created?

[cybermarcello]

Hi there,

I'm rather new in security issues and rather desperate too. I'm dealing with a computer which, after having been logged on to the internet at a certain time, is independently creating cookies. After IE is started up, the URL's described in these cookies are automatically loaded. I tried deleting the cookies, deleting the cache and deleting all temporary files, but nothing seems to help. The strange thing is that these cookies are created (I actually see them appearing in the Windows Explorer) eventhough IE is not started up!! I ran the latest Norton antivirus program, but no viruses were found. Does anyone know what might be going on here?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Xemus]

Possible hijack. Have you scanned for and removed spyware and malware? Norton does not detect these.

Download, update, and run the following programs and see what they turn up. When you're done, post your Hijack This log and we'll give it a look.

Spybot Search and Destroy

http://security.kolla.de

Adaware:

http://www.lavasoftusa.com

Hijack This:

http://tomcoyote.com/hjt

http://www.closedsocket.com

 

[cybermarcello]

Thanks for the tips Xemus, I'm certainly going to check this out!