Karl, please have the patience to read this carefully and listen to me

I am NOT talking about your "true" spyware/adware here................this is a bit of a specialist problem.

Somehow............it doesn't matter what the vector is; a program gets loaded on your PC. It has done so with admin rights and "looks" like a normal application. That is the problem...............none of your stuff will see it as malicious, because, in all truth, it is not. The malicious bit is when it tells you that you have X, Y and Z malware running and there is that small matter of the child pr0n you are hosting??????????????? get the picture?? so you are invited to send them $25 or whatever, get a full licence, and it will remove the offending items...............

Removing that sort of crap requires a specialist tool, as they dig themselves in so deep they make Cong bunkers look like total exposure

I posted this link because a guy I trust recommended it......... early days but he can ace about 235 of them, and I am sure that he is moving on

"I don't like to test out different types of spyware software"............... why did you join this site then?............ hell, if the only tool you have is a hammer, then you will see every problem as a nail?

We are a security site primarily, we discuss these sort of things, try different stuff out and so on............OK, NOT on our main production boxes

Somehow, I feel that your wife has not threatened to divorce you if you brought another computer into the house.......... then turns up the next day with 4 Pentium IIIs that she had "liberated" from her workplace