Hi Doof,
Details please. Was this a pretty sick PC, or did it just remove a few cookies that others didn't find.
Thanks
This was a very sick PC. Trend Antivirus kept catching a trojan trying to install spyware on the system. The problem was, I could never find the file that it was laying the blame on. Meanwhile popups would continue to show up. I determined that there was some form of malware that was trying to connect to some site and download this trojan, but I could never find it. Adaware initially cleaned off a bunch of things, but none were the culprit. Spybot found a few more but still none were the culprit. HijackThis didn't show me anything that I could make sense of (most likely somebody with a little more experience with it could have found this one). When I tried MS ASW, it found a bunch of new things, and it's built in advanced tools (namely the process viewer and system explorer) helped me locate two different running processes that would continually re-add themselves to the run entries in the registry.
Now with that said, it's pretty clear that there's nothing there that HijackThis and windows task manager couldn't have helped me with, if I had had a better idea of what to look for. But MS ASW helped me finally find the cause. For me, that's enough.
p.s got any recommendations for diving belize - staying at san pedro/ambergis caye, 2 diving days
Never been to Belize. My focus for the last 2 years has been Florida cave diving.
Going back for a couple weeks at the end of the month, actually.