I poured it wine but it already smelled too cheesy.
I can’t tell you how to fix it, wish I could, but I can tell you what I do to prevent them. I have Spyware Doctor which runs constantly. If my Norton(yes, I like Norton) doesn’t get it, Spyware Doctor usually does. I get updates from Spyware Doctor almost daily as it finds new things.
I detest having to reinstall the operating system and all of my software. I have 2 external hard drives and 2 internal hard drives. Each week I send all of my files, pictures anything new to the external hard drive. Once a month I send those files to the other external hard drive that I don’t keep attached to my computer.
I use Black Armour Replica once a week for my C drive. What this does it take a ghost image of your entire hard drive. If you get a virus you can wipe you hard drive out, then just put the ghost image right back on. When you turn on your computer, everything will be just as it was before. Same thing if your hard drive fails and you install a new hard drive. Instead of spending a day loading all of your software, you it is all loaded in a short time.
Prevention is good, but there are times when even if you don’t get a bug, your hard drive will eventually fail. This makes it super easy. Pop the new hard drive in, ghost the image and you are right back in business with everything you had on there before. Of course, if you have a virus and you copied it, it will also put that back on there. I haven’t had a Trojan or virus in years, but my programs sure have blocked several of them. Mainly trojans. I honestly think my Spyware Doctor is better than my anti virus. It catches things Norton and others don’t.
I just think you need both. Also, every once in a while I download ad-aware and spybot(free) and run them. They rarely find anything since I got Spyware Doctor. Once I run them, I just uninstall them. I also swear by Registry Mechanic. It’s incredible how much crap is left on your computer and it cleans it up.
I also use clean up and CCleaner(both free) and run them daily. CC has a registry cleaner on it too. I’ve used it, it works, but always tell it to make a back up any time you use a registry cleaner.
Good luck and I hope you can get rid of it without having to re-install Windows.