>>The program could delete all of the files on a person's computer, use zombie PCs -- those controlled by a master -- to overwhelm and shut down Web sites or monitor a person's keyboard strokes to collect private information like passwords or bank account information, experts said.
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>>http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/24/conficker.computer.worm/
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>>It was on the local news again today. Supposedly, if you can navigate to the most popular anti-virus sites, then you are not infected. One of the things it does is block those sites.
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>The symptoms described are very similar to teh problems I had a few weeks ago. Windows and AVG auto. updates were disabled, any attempt to manually go to their sites and download - I was getting "Cannot access page" type messages.
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>I had a hell of a time immunizing agin it and now my pc is thrashing the disk constantly, and everything takes forever (eg you can wait 5+ minutes for Firefox to load up, closing or minimising a window you see it happen in slow motion)
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>I haven't a clue what's thrashing the disk all the time. There are several AVG????.??? processes on the go now since, but I can't ID what's what.
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>In short my pc is practically unusable co0s it takes an age to do anything.
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>BTW if anyone has any insight to this I'd appreciate it. I'm, of course, not on my home m/c at the mo.
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>AFAIK I've not got any of teh other tools I used to get rid of the malware (eg PC Doctor et al) set as running (and clashing with AVG) but there seems to be some fishy looking anti-virus resident processes going on.

Have you applied the security patches?
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-067.mspx

Considered settings (don't know if Conflicker.C same as Conflicker.B):
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/962007

And run the malware removal tool?
http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx

And definitely read this:
http://forums.mcafeehelp.com/showthread.php?p=540778