Cynthetiq

yes, I thing virtualgirl HD is suspect too. I've outgrown "look at the little stripper walking across my desktop" You may not be a newb, but you sure aren't skilled enough to get yourself out of this kind of trouble to be cruising these suspect type web sites you are going to. I go to them from time to time so that I can learn how to remove and prevent them from infecting my machine.

oh duh.

I just figured out what your active desktop biohazard warning image is.

When you switch to active desktop, it opens the browser URL location as your desktop background. Which is set to this software referral, which is an error type screen by itself. Your virus systems aren't reporting it. It's reporting itself as an advertisement.

I kept asking for a screenshot because screenshots give EXACT words and images that I can determine which kind of malware you got stuck with. It was the softwarereferral.com link that got me the answer. But it would have been faster to deduce if one can see the errors on the desktop as opposed to someone describing it.

Follow the links and instructions I sent. Then tell your g/f to stop clicking on everything that moves, looks shiny and pretty, porn that wants to download anything codec, dialer, etc. AND you don't need that many toolbars. I don't care what kind of functionality you think is cool it's bloatware or spyware most of the time.

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