Had a few prob with spyware recently, this was the state of Windows XP Task Manager if I left it for more than 30 mins…
Find out here why I hate Windows
To rid the problem i ran Avast
did a complete scan which took overnight… (80 + 120 + 160 GB = hell, especially on a 1.5 Athlon)
then installed Peer guardian, which is supposed to be for chroncally paranoid p2p’ers but it suited my purpose well.
It blocked all egress and ingress traffic that was being attempted, so i could tell whether i still had a spyware problem.
Six, yes six scan and rescans of Adaware and the infestation was extinguished. Huzzah! asc