[Leland Pate]

My computer has a mind of it's own!
I've got pop -up ads telling me I've got "spyware".
I've got a browser hijacker that reroutes my homepage and takes me to about:blank some bull***** webpage search engine... and now I've got something downloaded that changed my desktop to a spyware removal ad. Also, when I go to a popular search engine (yahoo/MSN, it automatically redirects me to the same BULL***** home page. I can't seem to get rid of this browswer hijacker!!!!! Now to top it all off, I've got little XP bubles popping up out of my program bar telling me I've got spyware.

I swear to you all here and now if I E V E R get my hands on one of these people I will shift the orentation of their cheekbones with the backstrap of my sig 228.

I cannot believe people would randomly disrupt other peoples lives simply to pop up an ad for the new Motorola razor.

The good news:
I've downloaded several spyware programs. Namely adWare SE and Spybot Search and Destroy. They are both freeware programs and I have had limited success with them. The adWare continuely finds 20 or so registry keys and files it thinks are infected. But when I attepmt to delete my selection it say it cannot delete some of them without a reboot. When I reboot, nothing happens and I can run the program again to the same effect. Also, something goofely is going on with my norton. The program will not open itself. When I click on the program icon, I get an hour glass for a second or two then nothing. It just won't open!

AKKK!

I am so frustrated!

If any of you are computer savy and think you can lend a hand I would greatly appreciate it!