Hey folks, I just registered today because of this bug. It is a genuine pain!
A lil' background first: I am on dial-up, AOL, I like to play FPS games, and my wife likes to surf. We have both been getting unsolicited email like mad. I think it came from that or a website one of us has been to. Anyhow, I searched for several hours trying to find this thing using Norton AV, MS AntiSpyware Beta, Spybot S&D, Ad-Aware, Easycleaner, Xcleaner, HiJackThis, and I run SpywareBlaster to boot. I finally went searching on the web and this is what I came up with:
http://malwareremoval.com/plog/index...Id=48&blogId=3
I strongley recommend you READ ALL of this webpage and then proceed. You have to DL SpyAxeFix.exe to your desktop, reboot to safe mode (F8 when starting windows) and run the MS-DOS batch file (it is all self explanitory) in each user account (must have admin rights to do this and it cures the toolbar.) Then reboot to safe mode again and go to start-run-regedit and delete the mssearch.exe file installed in the Windows/system32 folder (this cures the pop-ups.) Then finally to get my IE home page back (I checked it after reading how many people were being redirected) I simply ran a system restore to a few days prior to infection, and for 3 days now I have had no issues whatsoever.
If anything changes for me I will post back here to say that it's back (hopefully this will not occur.)