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I almost got nailed by that hideous http://www.myspwarecleaner.com/

For some reason its "Your computer is infected" Message alert window popped up.  It looked very much like something that either came from Microsoft or came with Microsoft windows (I am not running any protection software or firewall software).

Since it identified several things that I know are ugly malware I clicked on something to allow it to check for more issues.  A click or two later it was asking me to download an installed - and then I realized this was not microsoft but some product.  I got suspicious because it was extremely well disguised and beautifully human engineered to to suck you along (and I consider myself relatively computer-sophisticated). So after downloading the installer I clicked NO to download and install the product - and I got into some kind of ugly loop from which I could not easily get out.  I finally had to pull the plug on the computer then uninstall the installer.

Anyway - the upshot is - this was a marvel of malevolent software design and human factors engineering.  

We had the same issue. It kept hijacking IE and sending us to places other than where we wanted to be. I tried uninstalling it, deleting it, eliminating it with a just-as-bad bit of malware posing as anti-spyware. i even went messing with the registry. then some more-seasoned people started posting on usernet the sort of executable files needed to truly grab that SOB from the roots and kill it. it is awful stuff.

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