-----Original Message-----
Some how my pc has been infected. when I log on to my
broadband i am inundated with about 30 popups advertising
Spyware removers!! ironic heh. Also my homepage has
changed to about.com & cannot be changed. I have run
Spybot & AOL searhc to no avail.
I am in desperate need of some help, has anyone
experienced this before??
Please please help me!!
.

Besides shutting off messenger service as another poster
suggested you need to install a firewall.
www.zonelabs.com


Other tools you may need:

Spybot "Search and Destroy"
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download

Spywareblaster
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/sbdownload.html

Spywareguard
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html

Ad-aware
http://www.lavasoft.de/

CWS Shedder,Hijackthis,BHO Demon
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
Hijackthis tutorial
www.aumha.org/a/hjttutor.php

winpatrol
http://www.winpatrol.com/

CWShredder (Line 313) Home page lock (Line 63)
Hijack this (Line 116)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Useful links about spyware.

http://forums.spywareinfo.com/

http://www.pestpatrol.com/PestInfo/

http://www.aumha.org/a/hjttutor.htm

www.spychecker.com/home.html

A list of "bogus" anti-spyware tools
http://pcpitstop.ibforums.com/axslin...files/bogus.ht
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