Just my two suggestions:
1. Read and apply http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
2. Move out of the line of fire between malware writers and Microsoft. Why should you suffer? Try Firefox or Mozilla.
Bob
Hi everyone,
I got a trojan last week and have been dealing with it ever since. I eventually got rid of the trojan and all the adware it brought with it, but I am still having one problem I can't seem to get rid of. Every time I do a search on Google I get a popup window with Lycos search results for the search I entered that pops under my Google search.
I have the Google toolbar installed to block popups, but it appears something has been hijacked. I've been doing complete virus scans every day and they've come up clean for a week now, and my virus defs are up to date (using McAfee). I've installed AdAware and Spybot (and updated them so they're current), and I've cleaned up everything they've found each time, but this problem keeps happening.
Every time I run them now, I get two items that they both find besides the usual tracking cookies:
Started registry scan

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