The other night I had to take my firewall and virus protection (trend/pc-cillon) down due to problems with my satellite network connection. Once I got back on line I forgot to restart pc-cillon for several minutes. The next day when my husband turned on the computer the next morning, pc-cillon went nuts. PC-cillon said it had detected ADW safesearchA. In a matter of minutes pc-cillon had gone off 90 plus times.I managed to talk him through cleaning the system and several scans with pc-cillon no longer detects it. When I got home from work I was doing some work on the computer and found it to be excessively slow. Trend went off two more times saying it had quarenteened safesearchA again. Subsequent scans showed no sign of it but I'm confused is it still hiding someplace on my computer creating havoc or if the computer is just getting cranky. Does anyone out there know anything about safesearchA and what to do about making sure it isn't lurking someplace on my hard drive? Any help would be most welcome.

I can't find any info on the suspected virus, but one important thing when dealing with virus removal is to disable System Restore. If not disabled, the virus may be restored by Windows after deletion making the antivirus program "loop". I would suggest that you disable System Restore the restart the computer in Fail Safe Mode and do a full virus scan. Good luck. /Marcus

According to trends encyclopedia it has a very low risk rating, it's virus type is other and supposedly the reported infections has been low but we've been infected once and trend has stopped it from coming in again at least twice. Can't even find out how it's being delivered. Last night the computer was idle (but online) when trend stopped it. I'm just trying to figure out why it's turned my computer into a slow poke and how to get my speed back. It's obviously still messing around even if it's supposedly gone.