Thanks. I read that, and was looking through them. When I try to delete the file, it says it is in use though.. =/

Try going into safe mode (restart, and hit F4 right before the windows boot screen comes up).

After that try doing a scan / removal.

Ok thanks..
I finally got the file deleted.. now i'll do a system scan again.. and try to get rid of them for good..

if that is possible.. i get new ones every day.

edit- w00t! 60,000 files, and 0 files found.
my internet is running faster now, i deleted all my cookies, so.. heh

thanks for the help, i'll come back here if i have another problem..

check this post:
http://www.evboard.com/showpost.php?p=511803&postcount=22

Dump AOL, you surf through their proxy servers and they suck. Turn on your XP firewall or use Zone Alarm, don't do both, it will bog. Do Windows Updates. Get a virus checker. Lose the Kazaa, Morpheus and the Limeware. Quit installing wacky IM add-ons and smiley email dress-ups that are malware. Reject email jokes that are executables.

This is the best however:
Back up your files then re-format your HD and re-install.
BINGO! a new computer for you to abuse and neglect all over again!

Andy

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Thank you so much Luna, this was all very helpful. I've been having trouble with spyware and adware recently, and Ad-aware just didn't do it. I have lots of new stuff to check out now! I just got a laptop and I've been extremely careful with it - I don't want it going to crap like this desktop computer. :\

I'm more pissed than a one legged man at a hopscotch tourniment.

We just got a new computer (a dell) and it appears to have motherfucking adware on it already, before we even connected it to the internet. We got popups, without ever connecting to the internet, saying that we had spyware on our computer.

When we transferred our DSL connection to the new computer and downloaded spybot S&D as well as Adaware, it still resets our homepage to some MS search page. Every fucking time I reset the homepage, and then close and reopen IExplorer it comes up as this MS search page, not our homepage. I am getting really pissed off at this computer. It was supposed to be better than our old piece of shit, and it has more problems than the other one.

We have a Norton AV as well as spybot and adaware, and it still fucking resets the homepage everytime we log on. This new computer sucks. At least with the old (ancient) E-machine it kept our homepage settings, and I was able to eliminate pop-ups and ads with Spybot and adaware. It's not working with the new computer at all and like I said It seems to have come with popup ads installed on it. I'm going to call those fuckers at Dell tomorrow and give them a bunch of shit about this.

FUCK ADWARE and SPYWARE. Whoever invented it should be drug out in the street and shot!

Nice work on this thread!

May I also suggest SpywareBlaster by JavaCools...you can either search for it in Google or get the link to download it from the Immunize page of Spybot Search and Destroy. SpywareBlaster is for IE protection and it also gives you control on ActiveX protection...but remember to check for updates as soon as you download!

Equinox_

Yes, it was quite helpful... We've had all the internet off here in our flat for the last 15 days more or less... We don't know yet if it was one of this virus or what it was... but I think that they are giving us more bandwith for free these days, maybe that's the reason that it doesn't work very well...

Added a tidbit on Safemode

Luna you're amazing!!!!!!!