Hello Everyone, I've got an x86 win7 box that came to me for help. The report was the internet was slow and the box had slowed down. Well, checking it I know why, someone had turned *off* UAC entirely and installed a bunch of stuff, a tpm (Trusted platform module) program, and a wireless driver it looks like someone was atempting to do win7 wireless sniffing just as a guess. There were also a torrent program and something called zlosk messenger that was the obvious stuff, in addition there's something called conduit search protect which is malware, and was described by a page on the net as having rootkit characteristics but not being one. Well, I've thrown essentials and malware bytes at it, both with the latest updates, and that's not clearing it. Some pages show recommendations to deal with it, but I have never heard of any of the programs, they're not made by a familiar vendor so I don't touch them. I've got the box disconnected from the net, in my experience some of this malware phones home as I call it for help, which is what I don't want. I'd appreciate any recommendations or if you've fought and killed this thing previously what you've used. Thanks. Dave.