Another virus removal day.

Computer Support - Adventure (Rated PG) One of the best and commons lines from desktop end-users, "I was just doing a search then all of a sudden ...". Well, the search address field keeps a history and the search field had in it pornxxx.org. We'll, as we all know, that's all it takes. Click on one of those sites that come up in the results and most all of them are going to dump some piece of software on the system and make it come back when rebooted and download more and make the system run slower, etc.. You all know what happens. But they don't know what happened - of course not. 

Spent an hour and a half cleaning another machine and getting their anti-virus/anti-adware/spyware software working again. Had to re-download and re-install that - some kernal error when starting. That software might get a post of its own. It's Eset. Really didn't know much about it 'till I saw it today. It didn't look bad and had protection against a lot of stuff. I ran it afterwards one I got it working again and it did pick up on some stuff that ad-aware se missed. Didn't update ad-aware se though so it may have been running an older version. I just ran what was on the computer already plus I brought in hijack-this and ad-aware se. It seemed to do the trick. Using my on demand remote control pc support software to get remote access for desktop remote support was out of the question since the computer was taken of line.