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Had all the same problems recently. I did the usual...Norton, spybot, CWS shredder, Ad-aware and them some. I found a couple of the "free" adware programs were totally evil and either identified problems that didnt exist (but could easily be fixed for $19.95) or were spyware themselves. One program from Webroot did an excellent job, but they kept returning. I had casinopalazzo, coolwebsearch, XXX dialer and so many other fancy names I cant even remember. I found many of the problems were either in the windows temp files or system32. If you find that you delete a file and it returns, then it has a zipped copy somewhere in your system. Those were impossible to find, but I stopped those by deleting qttask.exe. This file was being used by one of the CWS variants to reload itself every 8 minutes. It became a battle of wits....and the viruses won. When I found a keylogger and a worm from hell that deactivated my Norton Tools I just backed up and wiped the system. Interestingly enough every time I burned a backup CD I would have to remove a "hidden" file immediately before the burn that one of the trojans was adding to the CD. Sneaky bastards. My computer now runs faster than a virgin at band camp. To think that at one time the term "trojan" brought a smile to my face. Good Luck.
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