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There are quite a few nasty buggers out there that get autoinstalled. For IE users its pretty much maditory that you are patched to date always, that is the first line of defense. I do PC Support for homes and small businesses besides dabbling in the adult arena and the most common things that hit are CWS (cool web search) variants. All but one of them are easily cleaned in seconds via CWS Shredder just search for it if needed. The one that isn't is a real friggin nightmare installing Home Search Assistant and 2 other programs, about 150 randomly named dll's and exe's, browser hijack,etc. etc. The only thing that I have seen that cleans this is About:Buster, another cool tool. When you run it, it will run 2x by default, but I always run it twice for a total of 4 scans. Your anti-spyware and anti-virus should knock out the rest, but that last one is quite a pisser, the "best" i've seen in terms of ingenous bastards who create the stuff.
As a side note, I run IE outside of checking sites across browsers and never get any of this stuff and believe me I hit enough sites that you would expect the worst of the worst from.
Just wanted to toss out those 2 tools for those that get nabbed...I hate hearing that people reinstall when its not really necessary, just need to know what you have and how to remove it.
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