Now I don't know about AOL, but CIDAEMON.EXE I don't know if that is a AOL thing or not, I have not seen a virus or anything that uses that either. Hmmmm I need to talk to my buddy about this more, he has had something similar to this happen and I forgot what it was called he got rid of and solved the problem

According to this site it's part of Windows...

http://www.iamnotageek.com/a/cidaemon.exe.php

Well that's good, haven't seen it on many though. Hmmm he ain't home, well I will be asking about it tomorrow though, it was caused while he was surfing in IE and clicked the wrong thing and no scanner or anything picked it up and it was a registry fix he did.

This one looks suspicious:

Wsxsvc.exe

Here is how to remove it:
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/p...x?id=453076775

Do you remember installing the 'delfin media viewer?'

More on this:
http://www.processlibrary.com/direct...xsvc/index.php
(use that site to check others too)

Very interesting to check out the company that created this:
http://www.delfinproject.com/
And click on Ad Spec's. It gives details on the crap they send out...

I did not finish looking at the entire list, you might try the processlibrary link above and search others. It might be worth the effort. Then publish it for others...

Good luck!

You know that rings a bell wsxsvc.exe

On that one web site that says to unregister/remove all those files and DLLs... none of them are present on my computer except for the license.txt, which is present for a whole bunch of stuff (like Adobe Acrobat and so on). According to my computer delfin isn't on there anywhere.

And no, I didn't download the viewer... at least not knowingly. It's possible when I went to dictionary.com it went and just installed itself into my machine. I noticed icons for a porn site and a couple of other things that suddenly appeared after I went to dictionary.com, so I wouldn't be surprised if delfin did that, too.

I did a search for info on that and that's part of the delfin viewer itself. So, how do I remove that without totally killing my computer?

Hi,
Another thing you can look at is what programs are starting up when you turn on or boot up the computer. All of these are listed under a StartUp tab.
Go to Start/Run , then type in MSCONFIG , then click on OK.
In that window, click on the StartUp tab.
Look over to the left hand side to see all the programs starting up when you boot up. You can scroll down to see the remaining ones.

You can Left click on any checkmark (to uncheck it) by something you don't recognize. For example, one of the Spyware programs shows "Load32".

After unchecking an item, click on Apply then OK, and re-boot.
If you have disabled something you need, you can always go back and re-check it.
Best wishes,
fredg

fredg, tried that and we'll see if it works.

Looks like turning it off in msconfig worked. Thanks, all!

I didn't notice it mentioned, so are you using a pop up blocker? Adware and virus protection won't stop all popups.

It was mentioned that she used IE and Firefox, don't know about IE or not if she has the Google toolbar, but Firefox will block them.

Yes, I have a popup blocker on both Firefox and IE. I know all popups can't be blocked, but at least the random ones that come up even when I don't have any browser open have stopped, not to mention the ones that were on IE windows, but I was only on Firefox.

Hi,
Here is a link about Deal Helper.

http://forum.us.dell.com/supportforu...ssage.id=36114

It is a very long process to get rid of it.

You might try downloading/installing Microsoft's Anti-Spyware program, available from Windows Update. or http://www.microsoft.com

Best of luck,
fredg

Actually, apparently it's not deal helper, because that stopped showing up on adaware just a day or two after I posted the problem.

You may also try the 7 day free trial of "Adware Away". This program solves a variety of spyware issues with a single program rather than using several others.
You can just Google the name to find the download site.