What an interesting topic to see back from the dead!
A month or too ago I was on AIM when this window popped up from a friends instant messanger telling me to go to a file that ended in .com (a windows executable). Being the smart person that I am I didn't click on it and exited out of the window. I left for play practice leaving my computer and AIM on. Bad Choice. When I get home later my computer has become infected with a virus that likes to download spyware and constantly runs pokapoka75.exe. Well it won't go away. So I do the usual (adaware, AVG) figuring it'll go away. WRONG! It doesn't like to leave. I google it and find other solutions. I try some of them and it still won't go away. YARGH! Luckily I find a program specifically designed to destroy my virus "friend". It's called
Aimfix and the guy that built it is my hero. It got rid of the virus perfectly. This thread does remind me that I should probably run a spyware check though...