> > > > 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.

The reason my father's computer had so little spyware is perhaps because he is also using a virus killer. He bought F-Secure Internet Security along with his Internet connection.