i've been removing these nasty pests for years! i've learned that NO spyware cleaner will fix those with the nasty, annoying popups. some of the paid ones are the same ones that infect you and try to sell you a fix! best bet is to use hijack this. it's not exactly a cleaner. it just scans your memory and lets you know what's being loaded... so if you're not tech savvy.. you might want to hire a professional or get a computer buddy to help you because if you delete the wrong thing it can really hose your system! if you want to try it yourself, run hijack.. and research on google for every file listed.. sometimes the spyware might have changed it's name and make things harder. odds are if the filename sounds funny, new (around the time infection started) or is not in the directory of any known program, it's a spyware. delete them with hijackk.. if it comes back, odds are great it's part of some spyware and you'll need to go to safe mode w/command prompt and remove it there. you'll have to keep doing this over and over until the infection is clear because if you don't remove the whole thing it'll install itself again.
good luck! and don't blame me if you fuck up your system because you don't know what your'e doing!
