Hewlett-Packard HP G62 Notebook PC 058D110002242710010620100
System Serial Number: CNF038BDDK
Enclosure Type: Notebook
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
2.20 gigahertz AMD Athlon II P340 Dual-Core
256 kilobyte primary memory cache
1024 kilobyte secondary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (2 total)
Not hyper-threaded Board: Hewlett-Packard 1444 69.37
Serial Number: PX210012AZHBFZ
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: Hewlett-Packard F.29 04/07/2011
new USB Storage Use in past 30 Days (mouse over last used for details) new Hosted Virtual Machines (mouse over name for details)
Windows 7 Home Premium (x64) Service Pack 1 (build 7601)
Drives new – drive encryption Memory Modules c,d
319.86 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
228.27 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

hp DVDRAM GT30L SATA CdRom Device [Optical drive]

SAMSUNG HM321HI [Hard drive] (320.07 GB) -- drive 0, s/n S25WJDNZ903129, rev 2AJ10001, SMART Status: Healthy 7932 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory

Slot 'Bottom - Slot 1 (top)' has 4096 MB
Slot 'Bottom - Slot 2 (under)' has 4096 MB
Local Drive Volumes new – volume encryption

c: (NTFS on drive 0) * 302.24 GB 225.65 GB free
d: (NTFS on drive 0) 17.51 GB 2.53 GB free
f: (FAT32 on drive 0) 104 MB 94 MB free



* Operating System is installed on c:
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Restarted system to discover that the desktop had gone blank save for the Cmputer Icon and the Trashcan. I could not access Internet Explorer without double-clicking the C: drive icon and then navigating to iexplore. If I double-clicked other possibilities, the word "Empty" appeared.

I followed the instructions, Steps 1-4, in the Intensive Care Unit and submit the following logs:

malwarebytes

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 1.62.0.1300
www.malwarebytes.org

Database version: v2012.08.27.08

Windows 7 Service Pack 1 x64 NTFS
Internet Explorer 9.0.8112.16421
Danny :: DANNY-HP [administrator]

8/27/2012 4:11:31 PM
mbam-log-2012-08-27 (16-15-17).txt

Scan type: Quick scan
Scan options enabled: Memory | Startup | Registry | File System | Heuristics/Extra | Heuristics/Shuriken | PUP | PUM
Scan options disabled: P2P
Objects scanned: 193027
Time elapsed: 3 minute(s), 16 second(s)

Memory Processes Detected: 0
(No malicious items detected)

Memory Modules Detected: 0
(No malicious items detected)

Registry Keys Detected: 0
(No malicious items detected)

Registry Values Detected: 0
(No malicious items detected)

Registry Data Items Detected: 2
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced|Start_ShowMyComputer (PUM.Hijack.StartMenu) -> Bad: (0) Good: (1) -> No action taken.
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced|Start_ShowSearch (PUM.Hijack.StartMenu) -> Bad: (0) Good: (1) -> No action taken.

Folders Detected: 0
(No malicious items detected)

Files Detected: 0
(No malicious items detected)

(end)

gmer

No syhstem modification found.

I'll submit aswMBFR and DDS following reply.

sbuxman