> > > PS If anyone tells me to do a scan on my machine (I couldn't think of anything else to do), I already did. Nothing. And my virus program is updated daily.
> >
> > You're running the wrong type of scan, then. Download Ad-Aware (google for it) and try running that. That should kill it.
>
> I can recommend Ad-Aware. My father's Windows 2000 computer had its Internet Explorer so filled up with commercial spyware that I got fed up with it. I downloaded Ad-Aware Personal Edition... or at least tried to. Something, I don't know whether it was spyware or not, in Internet Explorer kept redirecting me to an advertisement page instead. So I typed the ftp:// link directly into the browser, which caused the browser to crash.
> Fed up with trying to circumvent the spyware to download Ad-Aware, I ssh'ed to my university's Unix server, downloaded Ad-Aware onto my local directory there, then downloaded it to my father's computer with ssh file transfer, bypassing Internet Explorer entirely. That worked.
> Ad-Aware found 43 spyware objects, which I deleted all. Hopefully the computer should now be easier to use.

Sorry, but I almost DIED laughing when I read your second to last sentence. Just 43? I'm regularly finding spyware objects in the HUNDREDS - no exaggeration. My most recent? 217. Man, you have it easy. My laptop is way worse, too. I don't even have internet explorer opened (I have wireless internet, though), and popups come up. I leave my laptop on for one night, and the screen is FILLED with popups. It's killing me. Ad-aware's helping, but... Google some more if you want - Adaware only checks for certain types of spyware things. Norton AntiVirus (which you have to pay for) is really really good for finding those Trojans and stuff.