Opera and Firefox crashing, may be due to a virus

[ShinobiGiri]

I was searching around the net for a file that kept crashing on me npswf32.dll (on opera) and ntdll.dll (on firefox) I had been neglecting my spyware/adware tools for awhile. So i updated and ran ad-aware, and spybot with their updated definitions, my AVG Antivirus has up to date definitions and that scanned as well. Spybot removed a lot of Adwares/Spywares that Ad-Aware didn't pick up. I thought everything was clean and good after freshly reinstalling firefox, opera, shockwave flash, and flash 8.

Still I was receiving an illegal operation error on the npswf32.dll file. It turns out i may have a trojan download called "trojan-download-agent-262" And there was a program out to reveal it to anti virus programs so they could pick it up and delete it called FixWareOut.

I have seen nothing suspicious in HiJackThis, and CWShredder hasn't picked up anything either. I've ran AVG Anti Virus, Panda Anti Virus free online scan, and Trend Micro's Virus Scan and still nothing is showing up. This is happening also on my computer in my living room.

I'm running Windows XP SP2 on both laptop and computer. Does anyone know what's up?

[Panama Red]

Have you tried a scan at Ewido.net? That seems to be one of the most effective tools out today. Run it in Safe Mode with Networking

[ShinobiGiri]

I downloaded and ran it, and it picked up adware.savenow. It quarntined it but i'm still receiving the shockwave error in Firefox...

[SWTF]

It's a possibility that your Shockwave plug-in has become corrupt. You could try uninstalling the plug-in and doing a fresh install.

Those infections might just have been secondary and unrelated.

Just a suggestion, good luck.

[ShinobiGiri]

i've tried numerous times..with the shockwave uninstaller that i downloaded from the site and the actual installer in the add/remove programs list