Are AVG, adaware, zonealarm, spyguard, spybot search & destroy the be all, end-all of problem-solving on the topic of spyware, IE hijacking, and viruses?
Except for AVG, I have all of the aforementionned programs up and running, and yet, when I launch my homepage –which is either google.ca or www2.sympatico.ca–, it always opens up a little “pop-up” (which is actually just another IE window, which is located farther than the bottom right corner…when you right click–>close it, you see it doing that movement from bottom right to the taskbar, then it shuts down). It’s a mere annoyance to have to close the pop up every 5 minutes or so of surfing, but it DOES mean there’s a hole in my system. Which I’d like to fix.
[Oh, and uh, well, for a reason I won’t explain due to the rules on cracks and big macs, I can’t install the service pack 2 of windows XP…Would that be the problem? If so, anyone have any pointers to unofficial (read: not windows update) ways to install the service pack 2?]
