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Message: <blockquote data-quote="exskibum" data-source="post: 477968" data-attributes="member: 383">This sort of thing probably explains why I had to get my hard drive wiped and the operating systems reloaded.  My problems were kind of like Thompsonian's, with my puter getting bombarded with cookies and some sort of BS fake MS Scan for spyware popups.  (Ex-GF admitted to having clicked on one of those at the beginning of this adventure.)I took it to a good tech who confirmed that I had a bunch of malware infecting the system and explained that even cleaning it once it was on there wouldn't necessarily get rid of the problem.  So, the hard drive was wiped, my computer was reloaded, and Webroot's Spy Sweeper was installed to keep viruses, adware, spyware etc. off the machine in the future.</blockquote>