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To: thecow who wrote (39885)3/8/2004 6:33:48 AM
From: AugustWest  Read Replies (1) of 110626
 
Help!
tc, anyone....

Friday afternoon, right before mrkt close, my pc just shut down by itself; when I rebooted I got a pop up message saying someone had found its way into my computer and I was being spyed on.

Long story short, there was a link there from spyhunter.com saying how they could help me.
SO I went there ran the free program and it found a large number of viruses/parasites.
But I had to buy the software before I could remove then, Duh!

I purchased the program from SpyHunter and began removing all these parasites.

Now whenever I reboot my computer and run the spyhunter, one parasite comes up every time, right away.
I can remove it but then if I run spyHunter immediately again, the same parasite appears AGAIN!

Sorry to take so much room to explain this
But how can I get this junk out of my pc?
On a danger level, spyhunter has it as severe
Here is the info it gives

parasite        object name         type    
DV tskmgr32 exe file


location
c:\ProgramFiles\Internet Explorer\tskmgr32 exe

Definition:
Commission stealer software

*Also, when I reboot, it resets my homepage to what appears to be a porn site.(viewpornkey.com)
I haven't been to a pornsite on this pc in a couple years(honest!) but right about when this all started I remember getting a series of emails which also appeared to be from pornsites.
I thought I just deleted them but couldn't find one of the emails in my deleted files.

And I have to ask, how screwed am I?
Is it now unsafe to run my trading software? Order online with my CC?
How about paying my bills online too?

Thanks for any help.
I've been terrified to even turn the pc on all weekend
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