BleepingComputer.com: Terrible to Zero upload speeds, cannot upload files.. recently got rid of viruses

I recently had a major pain with the Google redirect virus, which was operating on a non admin user profile. Through some research on here and other sites I managed to get rid of it, using MalwareBytes. It found 5 viruses in all, and once they were gone so was the redirection issue. I did attempt using Combofix, but this didnt seem to do much at all.

However, I have found as of late that my computer's upload speed is pathetic, to the point of zero upload speed. I am unable to send files to sites like wordpress and photobucket 9 time out of 10. I originally thought it might be a connection issue, but restarting routers and contacting my ISP to find no known issues has not alleviated the issue. Because of the recent virus activity, I am concerned that the two could be related.

I have tried changing Firewall settings, installed "speedupmypc2011" (which has made a great general difference), but although in IE I can now upload, speed test puts it at a god awful 0.11 upload speed. It never used to take this long.

Please can you advise me on how to make sure the machine is ok?

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Thanks for the quick reply. As soon as I get time to do this, I will update with progress and post a link to the associated thread.

I'm currently running the GMER scan, and will post the log when it is finally complete.

However, I cannot get DDS.scr to run. My PC recognises it as / thinks it is an Autodesk script. (I have AutoCAD installed). I'm struggling to find a way to disassociate the two. When I do try and run it, it opens notepad straight away with a page FILLED with characters, and the top line says "This program cannot be run in DOS mode."

It must be a confliction with the file association, but how can i fix this without having to uninstall Autodesk programs?

Link to log thread entry

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic398429.html

Unfortunately I was not able to produce any logs. GMER froze and locked up my machine after several hours of scanning.

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