I gave my grandaughter a slightly used HP for her birthday (1.6 Pentium w/XP
Home Edition) and it didn't take long before she got herself into trouble!

Symptoms:
When she connects to her ISP (Quest/MSN) she can't open Internet Explorer,
instead, a bunch of garbage pop-ups show up, things I've never seen before.
Then I noticed some program in the notification area called "108 Search
Assistant", or something like that, so I went to Control Panel/Add/Remove
Programs and uninstalled it! Well this didn't work, now I'm getting errors
referring to "CNBabe", "BabeIE" and "winnet.dll". I can open Internet
Explorer only when her PC is off-line, if I try to open it when it's
connected to her ISP, it opens for about half a second and then closes by
itself. If I try to open Outlook Express, I get an error saying that it
can't find the server, even though it's connected. Over all, everything is
just a big mess and nothing works right anymore.

I did a search for "CNBabe" and apparently it is a nasty, malicious, spyware
program called "CommonName", that hijacks your computer! I found some
removal instructions but it's going to require manually removing lines from
the registry, something I dread!

Has anyone here had any encounters with this horrble program and if so, do
my symptoms sound familiar, is this most likely my problem?

I have a copy of "Spy Sweeper", I'll try that first!

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!
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