. and it took quite some time to figure out how to get rid of it.
I'm not good enough at messing with computers to dig into one and pick out a piece of malware. But I've found that doing an advanced system restore that takes the configuration of your computer back to when it was initially purchased will get rid of anything that wasn't there on the day you bought it.
The down side is, it gets rid of files that you may want to keep. That's a problem for some but not much for me. I've only got some photos and a few small shareware programs on my computer. But I keep copies of the photos stored on photobucket and I can always download another copy of the sharewear I like.
I'm sure there's some malware and virus' out there that can overcome an advanced system restore, but usually, it will get rid of everything that wasn't on your hard drive on day 1.
