Go to http://www.safer-networking.org and download Patrick Kolla's very good (and free) Spybot S&D, make sure it's up to date and run it. Then, see if you're free of the scumware your "friend" foisted on you. If not, post back and we'll help some more!
My friend recently sent me a link and it autoinstalled an autodialer that disconnects me every 15 minutes and tries to dial a different #. Also, this prog resets my homepage to something else everytime I start explorer and resizes the windows so they're really small.
Can any tech-gurus help me out here?

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