Ok, I know a lot of you guys are a whole lot smarter than me on this, so here goes.
I've picked up some spyware, a trojan, worm or something. It's affiliated with a bogus site advertising "WinFixer 2005." Keeps crashing my browser (especially if I try to go to any anti-virus or spyware sites), pop-ups for the winfixer site, etc.
Here's what I know:
- I'm running up to date Symantec antivirus and firewall...doesn't detect it.
- Adaware doesn't detect it.
- Spybot caught it, and says it deleted it...it didn't.
- I cannot boot in safe mode and re-run these aps...won't let me (I hit F8 all day while trying to reboot...is there another way?)
- I cannot do a system restore...won't let me.
- Can't find a removal tool
- When I try to put my system into "stand by," it turns back on. It's freaky...I see the hard drive light start whirling, fan kicks on (it's a laptop), but the screen stays off.
Before I do do a full reformat, is there anything else you guys can recommend?
Any help is appreciated!