Dear Sir/Madam,

My problem is that very oftenly I receive various pop-ups, most of them titled "System Integrity Scan Wizards", telling me that I have spyware/virus infections..."click here to fix the problem". Also, at system tray, a traingular icon with a red exclamation mark appears withthe words "click here to fix the problem". When you click on al these pop-ups/icon, they redirect me to this webpage: ANTISPYWARE Reviews - PROTECT YOUR PC FROM VIRUSES AND SPYWARE .

Another problem is that yesterday I scanned my computer from various online scanners, and one of them found more than 12,000 infected files.

Attached please find my Hijack This log file. hijackthis..txt

I would be grateful if you would help me in this matter. Thanks in advance for your help.

Yours sincerely,

Stephen Muscat

If there is an icon in the taskbar thats directing you here you have installed something possibly the program that it directing you. I personally would run ccleaner CCleaner - Home to clean all temp files Then download and install and run spybot The home of Spybot-S&D! . Once all these are done goto start run if xp if vista click windows key and r at same time and type msconfig.Stop everything from this list except antivirus .
Then open a web browser and click manage add ons/enable and disable. Stop anything that looks dodgy there including toolbars and browser helper objects.Then go to control panel add remove programs in xp or programs and features in vista .Uninstall any dodgy looking antispyware program that relates to the pop ups your getting . Reboot PC. Download and install Avast free home edition avast! antivirus - high security and protection from malware with anti-spyware and anti-rootkit software built in when offered schedule boot time scan select yes and reboot . Allow the virus scan to check during boot. Once finished uninstall avast and continue to use what you have now. Run ccleaner again to clean up registry .That should have given your machine a good clean up. If your problem persists we can investigate further

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