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YOu do not need to reinstall XP. Just cleaned a ton a crap off of my sons XP PC last night. Used every software that was mentioned here. But first I made sure the Virus scanning software was current and then scanned his box. That found a trojan program that was probably at fault for his constant hijacking. Then I ran in order Ad-Aware, Spybot (and immunized the PC), HijackThis (found programs running in 'silent' mode), installed Spywareblaster and ran CWshredder (which found nothing) PC is good as new.
I downloaded all the programs to another PC and burnt them to a CD. As I installed each one, I checked for updates. And I also made sure XP was fully up to date.
Oh yeah, I also installed the Google toolbar to kill pop-ups.
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