Hi experts, i've been having an annoying popup message that keeps popping up repeatedly even after disconnecting from the internet and i think it's a spyware or adware or something. Here is what it says: "System Alert: MALWARE ALERT Warning Trojan Adware.W32.Exp.Dwnldr spyware detected. This Trojan allows Attackers to access your computer from remote locations, stealing passwords, Internet banking and personal data. This also prompts advertising popups. This process is a security risk and should be removed from your system. Type: Trojan Horse System Affected: Windows 98, 2000, NT, ME, XP Security Risk(0-5): 4 Recomendetations: Click Yes to get all available antispyware software" YES or NO I have Ad-aware 1.06 installed and updated + Panda 2007 and i've run full system scan on both of 'em with no luck to make it go away but have found other risks and erased them but this one still wont go away. If i click yes it takes me to some link which doesnt load but appears to be loading. Sometimes it even changes my wallpaper to this red webpage-like wallpaper which says Something about my privacy is in danger and creates three shortcuts which all link to the same website. Im in need of help please! gf

a good rule of thumb...NEVER click on things you don't know. Try this free scan http://www.spywareinfo.com/xscan.php for starters and remove all it finds. Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks

thanks for the link, i scanned and it found and removed one risk but the message still pops up. Sometimes it even appear from the system tray with a red triangular icon and a ballon message says "system alert, detected viruses activity. Use recommended anti spyware Win Anti spyware" gf

http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/help... The above shows a cure using HJT. You could D/L hijackthis, follow the instructions carefully and then copy your results into http://hijackthis.de/ Then your best best is to do a google search on anything that you find questionable in the scan and see whether it should be removed. Good Luck Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks

OK thanks again, i've D/L'ed hijackthis and scanned and copied and pasted log file results....Right now i'm googling to try to find an alternative cure while waiting for hijackthis log suggestions. I would also like to say that matters have turned to worse, if i double-click to open a video or any file associated with Windows Media Player this warning appears "Windows cannot find 'C:\Program Files\Windows Media Playe□\wmplayer.exe' Make sure you typed the name correctly and try again........ What's strange is that if i click any of the links or messages, Internet Explorer Opens them and My Default Browser Is Firefox so this means IE is the most affected by this Malware/Spyware. As Soon as i'm done posting this, im disconnecting and i'll connect later to see if....... thanx gf

Try this regscrubxp http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.... to clear out bad registry stuff. Also, I would D/L and use: Ccleaner http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4... and ATF Cleaner http://www.majorgeeks.com/ATF_Clean... Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks

I've tried registry cleaning using xmanager and all of the tools from the links above but none of 'em worked, I think this is a dead end. So I've decided to backup important files to my external_hdd and format my harddrive/reinstall xp. I'm posting this using my cellphone, anyways compliments to XpUser4Real for suggestions. gf