[fpgill]

Please understand I'm not much of a computer person. My son was looking on the net for game cheats to an xbox game. Something he clicked on has put spyware on that I can't get rid of using Spybox Search and Destroy or Adaware SE +. It apparently gets removed by Spybot, but comes right back. The thing that seems to come back first is called WinAdTools in Spybot. Also when I try running Adaware SE+ it never goes past the delete screen. I'm really desperate and I admit, ignorant.

When I clicked on the WinAdTools check box in SpyBot, I somehow got it to open a location called C/Windows/System/ide21201.vxd. I tried deleting this by going into the system folder but it came right back.

Can someone walk me through how to get rid of this? I'm sorry to be so ignorant, but I don't even know whether I'm supposed to come back to this forum, or if I get emails from someone. I was afraid to download the hijackthis software until I talked to someone.

The other things that appear (in addition to WinAdTools) are Avenue A, PeopleonPages, DoubleClick - but I think the WinAdTools is the problem. I get tons of popups - its slightly better on Mozilla than Explorer but not much. Plus I get browser redirects to "lowermybills.com" And some icon for Sportsinteraction.com - Bet on Sports appears on my screen.

Many thanks for any help-
Frances