I had Microsoft Security Essentials installed and was using Firefox to visit some shady sites and without me downloading or running anything I got a nasty virus. Symptoms: svchost.exe crashes, firefox is slower and has popups, toolbar installed in IE, computer is slower. I uninstalled Sec. Essentials and installed the trial of Kaspersky Antivirus b/c of its reputation for having the best detection rates. It immediately found a rootkit virus win32.tdss and said it would get rid of it on reboot but I didn't. Found out Kaspersky also has a separate free utility solely for this virus but that didn't remove it either. Tried others like Malwarebytes and something I hadn't heard of before but found after doing some research - HitmanPro (free 30 day trial), but nothing could get rid of it. I tried another one after doing more research - a completely free util called ComboFix:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/comb...o-use-combofix
This is the ONLY thing that completely wiped out this virus (works for other malware too) so I'm here to give it my personal endorsement.
Now I'm looking into making Firefox more secure - currently I'm using the "NoScript" extension since I'm feeling paranoid though I don't think that's a long term solution I want. I've heard of running Firefox in a protective layer called Sandboxie - I'll consider that but not sure it's something I want to do.
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