anyone else seen this...

[spacemanspiff]

I think I've got it fixed. A combination of spybot, adaware, cwshredder and hijack this, plus a manual search and delete of the registery for "searchassistant" entries, seems to have done the trick. I think it may have reinstalled itself a time or two, and could possibly do so again.

If I find the name of the file that does the install, I'll post it here. Aolfix.exe was mentioned on symantec's site, but I didn't find that on my system.

If you hear of a murder on the news anytime soon related to this dirtbag

Odysseus Marketing, Inc.
8721 Santa Monica Blvd
#409
Los Angeles, CA 90069-4507
US
Domain Name: SEARCHASSISTANT.NET
Administrative Contact:
Jones, Ed hostmaster@odysseusmarketing.com
Odysseus Marketing, Inc.
8721 Santa Monica Blvd

it's probably me. |raygun|

Thanks for all the tips on the forums and stuff. Looking through those will help when you're trying to decide what to zap with the scumware tools.