Brent -- Do you know anything about the Antivirus 2009 spyware?  I thought I had gotten rid of it.  Everything was working just fine until today.  Last week -- in fact, it was also on Saturday -- I accidentally and stupidly installed something on my computer that I thought was an upgrade of AVG 8.  Well, it wasn't and I should have known better since I did it all so fast, I didn't even pay attention to where I was downloading it and with all my computer experience, there's just no excuse for how stupid that was on my part.  Anyway, it wasn't an upgrade of AVG; it was a spyware called Antivirus 2008 and I spent the better part of last Saturday getting it off my computer.

 

So I have to assume that I never did get the entire program off my computer?  Anyway, it now seems that another one wants to install itself and it's called Windows Vista Antivirus 2009.  Approximately every other time that I go into Internet Explorer, I get a pop-up that says I have lots of viruses and I need Windows Vista Antivirus 2009.

 

I ran Revo Uninstaller and there were lots of unusual registry entries which I deleted (including all the related files that went with it -- I didn't even know if I was doing the right thing but at that point, I didn't care).  I ran Spybot -- it found a few things.  I ran the Panda software -- it also found some stuff (23 instances of spyware!) and got rid of it.  I'm running out of ideas and that stupid Antivirus program just gave me another pop-up.  I feel like I'm losing my mind.  I've tried using every cleaner program I had on my computer, and I thought I was rid of it.  But it just keeps coming.  It wants to install something on my computer and it's sometimes difficult to even close the screen that wants to do the installation.  I end up having to close all my windows.  It has become a horror.

 

Any ideas about what this thing is that won't leave me alone?