Originally Posted by acctman

let us know how things are once the scan is done. also if you're having search pages and antivirus pages appearing in your browser more than liking you have a proxy virus. easy to remove. It'll effect all browser, fastest way to manual remove it is load IE go to Tool - Internet Options - Connections tab - select LAN settings - check Proxy Server then click Advanced - remove anything in HTTP (probably will be something like 127.0.0.1 with a port) - ok out of there and uncheck proxy server. Go to General tab select Delete - check Temp. Internet Files and delete.

do that after running malabytewares thats a pretty good spyware removal but it sometimes doesn't wipe the browser changes. you might also want to go to Run and then type in msconfig then select Startup tab uncheck anything that looks suspicious, look at the Manufacturer and Command columns. If anything is "unknown" and in a weird location and file name, its more than likely a spyware. (i.e. sniffer Unknown c:\windows\temp\_ex-08.exe). I'm pretty good at spotting spyware file so feel free to post any the file name of anything that looks weird and you're unsure of, or you can just google the file name.