Don't really know if it's spyware or not...

[Rui Anselmo]

....but I figure it was worth posting here.

I've already posted my problem last Sunday, but the solutions given didn't work: install and run some anti-spyware programs (AdAware, Spybot S&D, among others), so I believe my problem is not one of spyware/adware.

Every time I open a site with IE, something automatically checks for several words on the displayed text (like book, advanta, discover, visa...) and automatically puts a link on the word to an external site (mainly amazon, but also some visa cards-related
sites).

After running both the anti-spyware programs and Norton Antivirus I still have the problem on my machine.

What should I do? Anyone knows an answer to this?

Thank you in advance.

[Mandy Shaw]

Have you tried HijackThis? It handles things from a different angle - Spybot
and Ad-Aware look for nasties of which they are already aware, but
HijackThis lists everything that is being loaded when you start IE, and
allows you to remove what you don't want. Obviously it requires care and
some technical knowledge, so that you don't remove something that is
essential to the healthy working of your system, but you could give it a
try - you could always post the output here for advice.
I am rather a HijackThis fan, it solved my spyware problems recently where
Spybot and Ad-Aware both failed.
Mandy
"Rui Anselmo" > wrote in message
...
> ...but I figure it was worth posting here.
>
> I've already posted my problem last Sunday, but the solutions given didn't
work: install and run some anti-spyware programs (AdAware, Spybot S&D, among
others), so I believe my problem is not one of spyware/adware.
>
> Every time I open a site with IE, something automatically checks for
several words on the displayed text (like book, advanta, discover, visa...)
and automatically puts a link on the word to an external site (mainly
amazon, but also some visa cards-related sites).
>
> After running both the anti-spyware programs and Norton Antivirus I still
have the problem on my machine.
>
> What should I do? Anyone knows an answer to this?
>
> Thank you in advance.