Hey guys, and girls, i'm yet another of these people who has contracted spyware, and i've looked over a lot of other threads that seem very like my problem, but aren't quite it.
If there is a thread describing (and fixing) my problem somewhere, i'd love a link, but otherwise, here is whats going on.
Like many others I have got a little red circle with a white X in it in my toolbar. Not only that, i have two, both of which regularly "remind" me that i have "got spyware, and they can help me get rid of it." they tell me to click on them to download "Microsofts" latest "antispyware"
Hmmmmm.....
I also had the desktop of doom, but different. Mine was blue, with a red square telling me i was infected. Duh.
I managed to get rid of that, by using Rawe's (i think) little registry edit.
Also, something was hogging my bandwidth horribly, and causing a lot of my desktop and toolbar programs to quit themselves, through lack of memory or something.
I downloaded AdAware, AVG 7, and SpyBot S and D. I also got that CCleaner thingy. i Have run adaware about 300 times, and it finds stuff every time. Spybot also finds stuff, and so does AVG. I thought i had beaten it last night, as everything was normal, but i restarted and it was back. Except the desktop.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers in advance, Blakey
