Interesting Malware/Spyware running that I can't find

[videobruce]

I aquired an interesting piece of Malware/Spyware that is resisting in the system tray. It is NOT in Task Manager or under Services. I have done a virus scan, AdAware & Spybot. All turn up empty.

The icon in the systen tray is a shortcut, to of all things, a website that has a antivirus program;
[L=http://www.anti-vermins.com/?aff=334]http://www.anti-vermins.com/?aff=334[/L]

I searched the Registry for the names of the program and company, but that turned up empty. I can usually find these .exe or .dll buggers, but this one has me.

Orginally it was a small .exe 'fix' for another program, but it downloaded and installed this program (see link) and a ActiveX program. I uninstalled the programs, but the VideoActiveX program was still there with three .exe programs running (that showed in Task Manager). I couldn't stop them from loading so I remeoved them from my other bootable drive while they were not active.

That is where I am now. Nothing shows but this blinking question mark icon with a balloon that says "System Alert". Again, I have only 13 processes running at startup, all M$. No new processes.

[jrsweger]

Get Hijackthis. Run it and take the log to www.hijackthis.de also paste the log here. You should probably run Ad Aware SE and Spybot S&D. Wouldn't hurt either to go to www.trendmicro.com and run their online virus scan.

[SeanC]

Try all the legit freeware anti-spyware scanners you can find. One of them will find it.

I also vote for running hijackthis and posting the log.

[nomaxim]

http://www.anti-vermins-removal.com....i_Vermins.html

AntiVermins is a fake anti-spyware program from Russia that is often downloaded and installed by a Trojan or through browser security holes. AntiVermins malware is similar to SpySheriff. AntiVermins launches on Windows startup and may generate excessive popup advertisements. AntiVermins will also display notifications of imaginary security risks in its attempts to get the user to purchase the full version. AntiVermins can be extremely difficult to remove manually, and will continue to try to recreate itself.

Has a removal tool, at the link above.
More info;
http://www.lavasoftsupport.com/index.php?showtopic=5759
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=10220
And another removal tool to try;
http://411-spyware.com/remove-anti-vermins

[BluesMan1]

If you can't find the problem, Panda Online Scanning may help: http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/ActiveScan.htm or install the demo and run it.

There is also AVG Anti Spyware Free: http://free.grisoft.com/doc/20/lng/us/tpl/v5 that you can use.

Good Luck