I have a virus I cant get rid of :(

[CanaBalistic]

safe mode only runs system critical applications and shuts down all networking (unless specified, i think). This disables everything else including viruses and lets you fix problems in a safe environment.

Do thoes pop ups open when your browser is opened or closed?

I also forgot to mention what firewall i use. I use Sygate pro. It was bought out by symantec and is now the firewall they use in thier bundel. I have the last free version of this program and it still works flawlessly as the internet hasnt changed since it was created.

[Rankenphile]

Go get Hijack This! and post your log results. It should give us a good idea of what is going on.

[Nagoshi]

I use ZoneAlarm as my firewall (free version) to control my Internet traffic, and since I use it I only got like 1 virus since I have DSL (which is about 6 months) and I dont have pop-ups or any backdooring spyware activities going since I only limit the softwares I want to go on Internet.

[CanaBalistic]

I hear zone alarm is pretty good. Black Ice Defender is supposed to be excelent. I've now heard that windows firewall is really good too.

[silverdemon]

yes, like cana said, safe mode starts only the processes that are truly NEEDed for windows to run. You can choose to boot in safe mode and safe mode with networking (and another option which i don't remember right now...)
So the virus-proces will not be started when you boot in safe mode, and thus you can remove it...
I believe you can boot into safe mode by pressing F8 when restarting (booting)

[CanaBalistic]

The other option is safe-mode with promt. I think this was added for backwards compatibillity with older version of windows. Who uses a command promt now days?

C:\ dir \anchient\craplola\

[Guttenaffe]

Post the hi-jack this log. I used to do this for a living before I transferred to work in the data-center.

Another the best program is ewido (http://www.ewido.net) from my experience working on 1000’s of student PCs at a major University.

From what you said you might have some form of "Spy Sheriff" but I'd need to see more stuff from the PC.

Safe mode doesn’t work for all malware, especially the ones that hook the shell and are loaded with the window's logon applications.

edit: EEEK!!! I just read the post of other users; DO NOT UNINSTALL the application that dropped the malware on your PC. Most of these applications will add more and WORSE malware to your PC than what you are trying to remove. The best action is to delete the malware from the pc. They use a program such as Jouni Vuorio's "Reg Cleaner" to remove the uninstall entry and then do a scan for useless/missing file entries.

Spybot S&D also has a tool to clean the uninstall menu, but I've yet to be able to remove something with just SpybotS&D or ad-aware, though both programs are very good at cleaning up after the internal (mostly manual) removal of these horrid applications.

[DaveW]

Get AVG Free Edition

A great peice of software. When i can afford it i'll be paying for the full version, just so they keep churning out good software. Adaware is allright but i find they lag behing other programs when it comes to updates for modernised malware/spyware programs.

I've cleaned my little brothers porn/spyware infested computer too many times. Any hints as to how to stop a 15 year old from downloading all the porn in the world, including the really weird ****, will be appreciated.

-Dave