I have only used Mozilla now for about thelast month or two. But on my old machine it is noticeably slower on some sites. So the other day I am downloading some cd covers from some internet site that has been around for a while.
Well i thiught I would just this once switch back to IE just to make things a little smoother. Well i couldnt believe it in less than 10 minutes I got hit with that stupid web search piece of sh*t. It also placed several gambling shortcuts and bargain buddy type crap on my machine.
I mean that summed it up for me. Never again will I use IE unless I just absolutely can not render a page with mozilla. This was the same exact program that caused me to reformat and switch to mozilla in the first place a while back.
Anyway I was able to do a quick system restore and amazingly was able to get rid of it. You may want to try this first. My experience though is thta usually this will not solve your problem but you may get lucky.
I like Adaware more than Spybot. But most people use both.
Here are a few more scanners (some specialized) from a very reputable site. Spyware blaster isnt bad either. Good luck.
http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/se...fwantispy.html