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[Areyar]

*kicks Micro102 in the face*
Arrgh!
Trend Micro is a security software company, they have an online scanner that I think is called Panda.

I'd advice installing hitmanpro, unfortunately the old macro-script collection version is no longer supported and the new (cloudscanning?) version is no longer donation-ware.
the old version instsalled and ran a series of freeware antiviral and anti-malare softwares for you and compiled a nice html-report. If you can find the older version, do try it.

Trojans suck grandmas!
*Micro is surounded by baywatchers. He is making a plaintive gesture, the baywatchers are trying to console him.*

[Tormy]

Norton isn't one of the top spyware programs. At all. In fact, it's one of the very worst.

I agree, Norton is far from being the best. It's mediocre. Kaspersky is so much better...but again it's not free either. 

[Micro102]

I don't know for sure if it will scan in sleep mode, but I would bet not.

I don't know for sure if it will scan in sleep mode, but I would bet not.

It would not.

Well, Avast! is, generally better. (also free, to boot )
However, for this kind of problem, we recommend MalwareBytes, or Spybot S&D, since this is will be eiither a backdoor trojan, or a malware/adware...

It did, the full scan system has been going for 20 hours.....Or maybe thats just a faulty timer that doesnt match the scanning prossess. So far it has scanned 150000 objects

[Baughn]

What amazes me is that people think this sort of thing is normal.

Switching to Firefox would reduce the chance of getting infected a lot, yes. Better yet, switch to Linux; I have yet to hear of any adware on there.

(Which is not to say they can't happen, but the small size of the target combined with a different software distribution architecture - you don't download software off websites, your distro has it all - makes it impossibly unlikely at the moment)

[Duke 2.0]

What amazes me is that people think this sort of thing is normal.

Switching to Firefox would reduce the chance of getting infected a lot, yes. Better yet, switch to Linux; I have yet to hear of any adware on there.

(Which is not to say they can't happen, but the small size of the target combined with a different software distribution architecture - you don't download software off websites, your distro has it all - makes it impossibly unlikely at the moment)

The whole advertisement banner problem I told goes beyond browsers and operating systems. That is, unless you have an addon to block basically every fancy web magic one can do.

[Baughn]

Sure, the adblock plus/noscript combo.

I turn on javascript only when I need to, which is almost never, and I never see this sort of problem.

[Yanlin]

What amazes me is that people think this sort of thing is normal.

Switching to Firefox would reduce the chance of getting infected a lot, yes. Better yet, switch to Linux; I have yet to hear of any adware on there.

(Which is not to say they can't happen, but the small size of the target combined with a different software distribution architecture - you don't download software off websites, your distro has it all - makes it impossibly unlikely at the moment)

The whole advertisement banner problem I told goes beyond browsers and operating systems. That is, unless you have an addon to block basically every fancy web magic one can do.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3456
http://noscript.net/
http://adblockplus.org/en/

[Duke 2.0]

 Have fun disabling all that when you want to use those features.

 Because while they block quite a few things, the hard stuff like what I describe find ways around anything that does not block the stuff completely.

 Still, all good utilities.

[Baughn]

You can disable the disabling on a per-site basis, though.

As it seems unlikely that you'd want to enable scripting on a page that would actually pull that sort of trick, I don't see the problem. Yes, it's a bit of work, but.. well, it was a bit of work. These days, I've pretty much enabled everything I need to enable.

[Micro102]

finshed scan, no spyware....like i said websites are being bought out to the wrong people....dam economy

[Baughn]

Did you run the scan from the same computer that may, in fact, be infected?

Just so you know, a lot of modern spyware will spoof those.

You can burn a bootable CD to run the scan, but.. the more sophisticated spyware will interfere with this too.

So burn it from another PC. Preferably running Linux.

[inaluct]

Listen to Baughn, he knows what he's talking about.

Micro, you should totally look into getting Linux, even if you can fix this. There are like 30 viruses for it.

[Baughn]

..all of which are proof of concept, and do not actually exist in the wild.

[Sowelu]

..all of which are proof of concept, and do not actually exist in the wild.

There's plenty of worms if you don't keep your security updated, and they do a lot worse damage than popping up some ads.  They like to trash your system.

[Little]

For Linux?