I clicked on something that looked like an authentic Microsoft or Windows System Alert and finished up with multiple icons demanding I click to buy their spyware and/oradware.
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Your PC is infected with adware. Use these scans to remove it. Both are free and safe to use.
Spybot – Search & End detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications. Spyware silently tracks your surfing behaviour to make a marketing profile for you that is transmitted without your knowledge to the compilers and sold to advertising companies. If you see new toolbars in your Internet Explorer that you haven’t intentionally installed, if your browser crashes inexplicably, or if your home page has been “hijacked” (or changed without your knowledge), your computer is most probably infected with spyware. Even if you don’t see the symptoms, your computer may be infected, because more and more spyware is emerging. Spybot-S&D is free.
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Run counterspy from sunbelt:
http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/
Is the advertising trying to sell you, one of these a waste of time harvest? It is scam advertising trying to defraud you. A computer infection called smitfraud is causing the phony warnings (see not more than).
AdwarePunisher,
AdwareSheriff,
AlphaCleaner,
Antispyware Soldier,
AntiVermeans,
AntiVermins,
AntiVerminser,
AntivirusGolden,
AVGold,
BraveSentry,
MalwareWipe,
MalwareWiped,
MalwareWipePro,
MalwareWiper,
PestCapture,
PestTrap,
PSGuard,
quicknavigate.com,
Registry Cleaner,
Security iGuard,
Smitfraud,
SpyAxe,
SpyCrush,
SpyDown,
SpyFalcon,
SpyGuard,
SpyHeal,
SpyLocked,
SpyMarshal,
SpySheriff,
SpySoldier,
Spyware Vanisher,
Spyware Soft Stop,
SpywareQuake,
SpywareKnight,
SpywareSheriff,
SpywareStrike,
Startsearches.net,
TitanShield Antispyware,
Trust Cleaner,
UpdateSearches.com,
Virtual Maid,
VirusBlast,
VirusBurst,
Win32.puper,
WinHound,
intellect Codec,
DirectVideo,
EliteCodec,
eMedia Codec,
FreeVideo,
Gold Codec,
HQ Codec,
iCodecPack,
iMediaCodec,
Image ActiveX Object,
IntCodec,
iVideoCodec,
JPEG Encoder,
Key Generator,
Media-Codec,
MediaCodec,
MMediaCodec,
MPCODEC,
My Pass Generator,
PCODEC,
Perfect Codec,
PowerCodec,
PornPass Administrator,
PornMag Pass,
QualityCodec,
Silver Codec,
SiteTicket,
SoftCodec,
strCodec,
Super Codec,
TrueCodec,
VideoAccess,
VideoBox,
VidCodecs,
Video Access ActiveX Object,
Video ActiveX Object,
VideoCompressionCodec,
VideoKeyCodec,
VideosCodec,
WinAntiSpyPro,
WinMediaCodec,
X Password Generator,
X Password Administrator,
ZipCodec
If so, then you have a Smitfraud infection and a free removal tool called SmitFraudFix with the removal procedure is here:
http://siri.urz.free.fr/Fix/SmitfraudFix_En.php
More infomation and another free removal tool called RogueFix can be found here:
http://www.internetinspiration.co.uk/roguefix.htm
Most “All-Purpose” malware apps such as AVG, Norton, Spybot etc unforturnatly can not remove or even detect this vile pest called Smitfraud.
Excellent luck.