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Gah! Somehow I've got Scumware installed ...

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Now I'm a pretty savvy computer guy, I've a good virus checker (PC-Cillin) , I've been using FireFox for over a year - and until now I've manged to stay SpyWare/AdWare/ScumWare free (pretty much). I even ran Adware or SpyBot once in a while - just to be sure.

Then the other day I noticed that Mozilla brought up a pop-up for a SpyWare remover, and since then I noticed all sort of strangeness until I fired up IE by accident and saw that some how I now I have some Google-esq search bar (SearchAssistant) sitting under my Google Bar.

Now both FireFox and IE have there homepages changed to Search2Web or Web4You or some other shitty scum filled advertising web-site posing as a search engine.

I've run the lastest version of AdAware and SpyBot and quarentined any bad entryies and files - but the damn ScumWare won't die!

Please, someone must know how to help rid my computer of SearchAssistant and it's pop-up producing friends (other than a hard-disc wipe and a reinstall)?

Thanks.
 
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