Recently, I accidently downloaded a very hazardous file. I knew it was bad news, but as things happen, sometimes you just don't think and end up doing stupid things... So such a thing happened to me...

I now see that I have a new program in my Add/Remove Programs in my Control Panel. It's called Toolbar 888. Where I should have the option to remove it, it says Change/Remove. It then "pretends" to be rid of itself, but I think all it's doing is spreading more of its ilk. It never disappears... It simply says that it is "Complete" with whatever the hell is was "doing".

I have noticed new processes running, notabley being called C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe and alg.exe etc...

My question then, is how am I to be rid of this thing...

I have run Spydoctor, Ad-Aware, AVG, and ewido. Nothing.

It's rather frustrating as I will get random pop-ups that direct me to download Winantivirus Pro and other obvious hoaxes.

I did find a site talking about the same problem, and I was wondering if it was safe and/or credible.

Here is the link to mentioned site:
http://forums.techguy.org/security/5...bar-888-a.html


So, any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks