If you contact the people Aqua posted they will tell you exactly what to do to remove just the problem and save the rest of your computer without trying 8947349725934873 fixes.

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"...it says it sells Pest Trap, Malware Wipe, Spy Guard, but I suspect that's all just a ruse to get your credit card, & these so-called programs probably dont exist..."

Scotz...don't reformat!!!....this is the same garbage I found on my son's computer!!!...It can be beat!...use Spybot S&D in SAFE MODE....it will remove 90% of this spyware and prompt you to let spybot run after restart....let it run again....and continue until ALL of the crap is gone
Be patient ...it will do the job...just give it a chance.I had to run Spybot S&D in safe mode...then restarted and ran it in full modetwice and finally safe mode once again......the spyware will attempt to block the Spybot from running on restart but eventually it is eliminated.
..p.s.--make sure your definitions are up to date as this piece of shit is fairly new.....
Good Luck!!

I was about to reformat, but then I discovered that Win2000 doesn't exactly give ya any easy way to do so...on the advice of my guitarist (he's a radio talkshow junkie), I checked out Kim Komando web page & found Startpage Guard for free...it's not very intuitive, but it does specialize in this kind of hijacker...even after running it, I still felt compelled to give Spybot & AdAware another run at it as well...for the first time in days, I was able to bring up Comcast home page, & after a reboot, SPG stopped the hijacker in its tracks (I refuse to classify these asswipes as belonging to any higher species)...the biggest obstacle to overcome in these kind of attacks is that most all the freeware available is designed to block the incoming bugs that they recognize more than get them out after the fact, & as jbh3 points out, this was prob a new attack plan that's not gonna be seen as a threat until it's too late...
While one can never be sure, I believe I was likely duped into opening the door for this nasty POS...I was led to believe that this was a codec for a video file...again, we often pay a high toll for cruising the red-light district, even when it's just in cyberspace...

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I had an Episode a few weeks ago .................. Tried the Trend Micro Anti-Spyware 3.0 trial version and it Whipped ass on a Trojan that some Farking Web site that Microsoft Sanctions. Anyway is cleaned it and I'm thinking about purchasing it. I'm already running Trend Mcro Security anyway.

Scott ........... what I really like about Trend Micro is is tells you where all parts of a Virus or Malware hides. You never wind up Losing important Files or reformatting Windows. Good Luck Buddy.

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