I was having problems a few days ago after downloading a program from Limewire. My desktop was forced active to a site with ads, I had pop-ups like crazy, and my computer ran very slow. It also caused my AdAware to freeze when it got to "Conditional Files", so it never finished a scan. I used SpyBot, VCOM System Suite, AdAware (once I reinstalled it) and Prevx CSI to scan and get rid of most of it, much of which came from my /Fonts/'/ folder, which I can't even see when I go to the Fonts folder. I uninstalled Limewire, and uninstalled/reinstalled AdAware which is now functioning normally. I think I managed to remove most of it, but I wanted to be sure.

My main question, I guess: when I Googled information on this, I found this link to a post in these forums, back from Nov 2007.

http://www.computing.net/answers/se...

I was wondering if anything had been done in follow-up to either of the posters questions? If so, how can I see what's in the Fonts/'/ folder and get rid of all of it?

I'm still having problems with my computer reading my CD and DVD drives. iTunes recognizes that it's a blank DVD (brand new), but I get an error telling me it is corrupted or Windows can't read it when I try to open it so I can copy my documents and pictures over, and then make a new recovery CD. Is this possibly related?

Thank you.

- Mustang

Edit: I just updated SpyBot and now it looks like it's finding all those files in the Font\'\ folder. Here's the information:

Company:
Product: Win32.Agent.cmn
Threat: Trojan

Description
Win32.Agent.cmn copies itself to the fonts directory of the operating system where it is invisible for the normal user. Afterwards it generates a lot of zip archives including a copy of his own and sents it to malicious website to spread the trojan to other computers.

I will remove all these (some 6000 and counting!!) and see if that helps.