Eisboch wrote:
"David Scheidt" wrote in message
...

There are a large number of exploits that take advantage of bugs in
web browsers to do nasty things. They're mostly, but not entirely,
confined to Internet Explorer. Most of them turn up as "zero-day"
exploits, meaning that malicious use of them is being made when
security researchers announce their existence. The Windows operating
system itself has any number of remote exploits in it; some of these
could be used by a website.

David


I am still getting an occasional pop up coming through, but nothing like
what was happening before I installed Spy Doctor. I think I'll start using
Firefox as the browser again but would like to keep using OE for email and
newsgroups. Probably a mistake, huh? I could never get used to Agent or
Thunderbird.

Eisboch



Eisboch,

I had a very similar virus, Spyware Doctor would removed 99% of the
Spyware, but that one percent will grow if you don't remove it, even if
you stop using IE. After awhile it will be as bad as it ever was.

Use HijackThis (free):

http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/#startuplist

and post the log on

http://forums.tomcoyote.org/index.ph...f5c2d80a7d9c4&

They will tell you which lines to remove from your start up directory to
completely.

If you post the log in rec.boats, I will take a look and see if I
recognize the spyware lines.