This is getting serious!

[prince rupert]

A week ago I posted a question about solving the hijack of my homepage, thanks for the replies. However the situation seems to be getting worse. I now get messages from my AVG Anti virus telling me I have a trojan horse "Downloader agent 2Q" which is infecting exe files every time I open my homepage. I still have Home Search Assistant/Shopping Wizard and Search Extender on my Add Remove programmes (they are undeletable) I also have a stupid homepage that appears every so often which is full of porn websites.

Something very wrong I think. I have tries SpyBot/AdAware and Hijackthis. I also have AVG Proffessional and Spyhunter these all seem to solve the problem temporarily but back it comes every time!

Getting desperate guys can you help or isit going to be a wipe and reload situation?

Thanks Andrew

[Polykranopalous]

I used spybot last night cause i kept getting the popups and bam they havent showed up since. (sorry this post doesnt really help lol)
Maybe try a registry fixing program.

[Ace]

I would:

- do a repair install of Winblows
- clear (delete) system restore points
- do a full online antivirus scan. I think both Norton and McAfee offer this, and possibly Panda too
- run every spyware removing prog you can get your hands on - in safe mode

[Polykranopalous]

I've done everything ACE said to do many times, and yet nothing really catches it..cause tonight I just got a popup browser of it. its weird it only seems to popup after 8pm lol

[therealwesty]

I think I would have formatted and installed a fresh copy of Windows by now. You should be able to back-up any documents, photo etc to CD or something as Spyware and viruses will usually not effect those types of files. The way I see it, with the ammount of time you've spent messing around trying to fix it (unsucessfully) you could have already had everything freshly reloaded and configured and know for sure the problem is gone.

[Avid6eek]

Once your system is infested, it will never be cleaned. I would take westy's advice and do a clean reinstall of Windows.