malware

I've been enjoying a hefty process creation penalty on my Windows XP Home SP3 for about two months. The problem is most manifest and annoying with tasks that do create lots of processes, such as shell scripts (incidentally, bash scripts on Cygwin), Makefiles, or unpacking an IzPack package such as the SpringSource Tool Suite installer (lots of separate unpack200.exe JAR extractor processes). I'm sure it's process creation from observing bash script diagnostic output, or watching processes appear in task manager. There is no noticeable delay once a process is up and running. I've reported that

Yesterday I had installed several outdated plugins (my bad) in order to make my buddypress registration page display “the terms and conditions” checkbox and since then all the pages and posts started displaying some unwanted text at the start and bottom. I have removed all those plugins but still I’m getting the message. I tried several malware scanners like wordfence, sucuri, etc but everything says my website is clean. I'm out of options now. Please help me get rid of it from my site. At the page start this code appears: <div style="position:absolute;top:0;left:-9999px;">Want create site?

It looks like this just sends a ping, but whats the point of that when you can just use ping? /* WARNING: this is someone's attempt at writing a malware trojan. Do not compile and *definitely* don't install. I added an exit as the first line to avoid mishaps - msw */ int main (int argc, char *argv[]) { exit(1); unsigned int pid = 0; char buffer[2]; char *args[] = { "/bin/ping", "-c", "5", NULL, NULL }; if (argc != 2) return 0; args[3] = strdup(argv[1]); for (;;) { gets(buffer); /* FTW */ if (buffer[0] == 0x6e) break; switch (pid = fork()) { case -1: printf("Error Forking\n"); exit(255); case 0