Computer help needed

I've been using Norton System Works for a few months now and am very happy with it. Not only does it have a kick ass virus protection program, that gets updates every week, but it has Utilities to help you make your computer run better and Web Tools to help with many web problems. I hear your problems- my computer was giving me many problems and when I ran Norton for the first time it found about 10-15 viruses. Nothing serious but pesky none the less.

Recently, my computer has had a virus that periodically opens porn sites in new windows when I click a hyperlink. I'll also find some of the sites added to my favorites. Needless to say, it gets very frustrating. I downloaded two programs, and they've helped. The first is Ad Aware 6.0, and the other is called Bazooka.

I forgot to mention that. When I first connected to the Internet, I set my homepage as Yahoo; however, the same time the pop-ups started appearing, my computer would reset my homepage every time I opened Internet Explorer to something called "Search Space," I believe. Bazooka should do the trick. Good luck.

I just fixed this problem for someone today. The likely source is a trojan called "CoolWebSearch" and you can get rid of it pretty easily. Go here and check out their info. Get SpyBot and run that, AdAware is good, and then Hijackthis is another good diagnostic tool if you still have problems. You will want to use the first two, then if the problem isn't fixed, run Hijackthis and paste the log into a forum that deals with this sort of problem. I can't say I'll volunteer to check out the HJT log because I don't really understand it as well as some do, but there are lots of people who seem to be very willing to help out against the browser hijackers.