[Hammer]

I tried system restore and it won't allow me to restore to a time prior to the installation of the FUCKING SHIT!

I also went and bought Spy Bouncer as suggested and ran it, found some problems, fixed them and rebooted. Guess what happened as soon as everything finished loading and my ICQ started up. Yes, you guessed it. A FUCKING AD. I didn't even launch IE or start any programs. As soon as the computer finished booting the ad popped up. After I closed that one, every few minutes another one pops. Right there on my desktop, without anything running and no browsers open.

The thing that is really getting to me is that now my hard drive is constantly being accessed. The computer is sitting here next to me while I'm working on my Mac and the activity light is flashing and I can hear the hard drive working non stop. Every now and then an ad pops up.

Guess I'll be reformatting and reinstalling XP next. Now I can't even avoid the problem by running Netscape.