Last week these weird pop-ups kept appearing telling us to update Adobe Shockwave/Flash. My dad updated them Friday and then that night at midnight the computer was going crazy. I wake up to find AVG showing 5 faulty executables under AppData with a filename similar to Adobe_(something)_FakeInstall_english[number here]. Yesterday we uncovered .exes constantly sending outbound connections to domains such as "fff5ee.com", "honeymods.com", and a couple different IPs. The .exes were getting spawned so frequently that we had to turn off the wireless adapter on the laptop to get them to stop spawning. The .exes were named "dllhost.exe" and were getting spawned by a PowerShell file. MalwareBytes discovered about 500+ objects under AppData and ProgramData. Most of them were related to the dllhost.exe and the powershell file.
Apparently faulty Adobe shockwave stuff has been going around, as a neighbor posted about it on our neighborhood's email list.
Any idea what we should do? We aren't planning on sending the computer to a computer store or Dell unless we absolutely have to. After the lightning strike, and my recent trip to the ER, we're p short on money.
