I've no idea how to tell whether or not it was a virus, or if it was if I was infected. I was on a forum and there was a spammer posting a link leading to something called onlybest.org. I got paranoid and googled the address after clicking it (it lead to a search engine with loads of adds--mostly porn), and it came up on a bunch of sites on lists of 'CWS baddies', whatever those are....

I've run Ad-aware SE Personal, and this is the post-scan Hijack log. Has anything infected me?

According to www.hijackthis.de, the only infection I have is from Wild Tangent--probably because of a game of theirs I downloaded once....

This file doesn't seem to be from Wild Tangent, though.

Any experts on this have any idea what it may be?

O3 - Toolbar: &hp toolkit - {B2847E28-5D7D-4DEB-8B67-05D28BCF79F5} - C:\HP\EXPLOREBAR\HPTOOLKT.DLL
Nasty Entries found in this registry zone are potentially nasty. This application ([B2847E28-5D7D-4DEB-8B67-05D28BCF79F5] - Result: B2847E28-5D7D-4DEB-8B67-05D28BCF79F5) has been checked. Hit rate: 100,00%
Must be fixed!

Hi and welcome to PC Help Forum.

I am sure that a member of our PC Security Team will look at your log as soon as possible.

I hope I just clicked some form of random advertisement link posted on the forums instead of actually getting a virus. ~.~

Hya Alexianx.

Youre log is indeed clean exept for the Wildtangent , that can be uninstalled trough add/remove programs.

Looks like youre pc is good protected , you have an firewall , AV , malware protection , and windows seems to be updated. So i doubt that that site could infect youre pc.

Also dont worry about the HPTOOLKT.DLL entry , thats from Hewlett Packard.

But i would disable the windows messenger service:


And i see you have two AV's running at the same time , that can cause conflict and performence problems. I would disable or uninstall one of them.

Thanks for the help! So I don't have a virus? Or if the link was a virus, it didn't manage to infect me?

No prob ofcourse.

And i doubt that youre pc was infected , youre updated and good protected it seems. You wont be easely the victom of a "drive by download" on an malicious website. But you never know 100% sure though , if you want you could try some other scans to make sure , like an Ewido malware scan:

http://www.pchelpforum.com/118557-post2.html

Or an Panda online AV scan here:

http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan

And if they find anything then please post the log(s) from it for me to look at.