About 4 days ago my wife downloaded and ran something she shouldn't have. By the time I got on the computer that night it was almost unuseable. (It had been pop-up clean and no troubles before then. It had been 6 months since I last ran spy removal tools - always before it just had to clean out tracking cookies.)
I ran AdAware and Spyboy - and it cleaned up a bunch of stuff. However, a couple of things did not go away - there were three things under the title of SmitFraud-C. Of course, many others came back quickly - like WebBuyingAssistant some others.
I eventually saw the ComboFix program that was mentioned on this forum. I ran that and things did improve considerably. The SmitFraud stuff that SpyBot could not remove is now gone.
Unfortunantly, my problems are still not gone. (In retrospect I should not have run ComboFix before posting - but at that time I could not have typed a sentance before things would have gone haywire.
The symptoms now are that the pop-ups start happening again immediately after I clean and reboot - just not a frequent, but frequent enough to be annoying. SpyBot and AdAware are able to remove items they find - but they come back fairly quickly. I might get a dozen things or so - but I almost always see Zendo and WebBuyingAssistant. Nothing seems to stop the pop-ups.
I'm at a total loss as to what I should do next - please help!
Ray