Spyware is annoying

Well its been a trying past few days with me battling a nasty spyware infection on my home workstation, it appears to also be a losing battle.  The story goes a little something like this.

There I was minding my own business and all of a sudden I get 10 IE popunders advertising everything from commission junction to real-estate.  Knowing exactly what had happened I quickly downloaded my favorite virus scanner (haven't had a virus infection in over 2 years so I never reinstalled the scanner) and updated my spybot database and proceeded to flush out the infection.

Slowly one by one the 8 or so trojan/virri that had somehow infected the system where removed until I got down to one that no matter what I tried would not go away.  I even tried some of the donateware scanners rumored to be the "fix" but with no avail.  One the system tested clean in safe mode I rebooted and BAM! popunder city.

Sadly the last resort is a re-format meaning new HDD for data transfer and a couple days worth of installing software and tweaking settings until everything is back the way I like it.  

On the positive, the first tine I'll be installing is my virri scanner and some sort of password to keep the sneakernet users from using my workstation..

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