OT: Virus protect pro
Ok. So. This weekend I was web browsing and was prompted to download a activeX file for firefox in order to watch a video. Being the idiot that I am I dled it. I don't know why. I knew it was something bad seeing as I've never had problems watching video's on any other site. So anyway, I dl it, it creates a "setup" icon on the desktop. When I go to open it, it's for Virus Protect Pro. I cancel it, delete it, and run a spyware scan using AVG. Now I have this downloader.something thing that wont go away. I THINK I got rid of it. I've ran the spyware thing about 3-4 times and not finding anything. However. I now have this little icon down in the lower right part of the start bar. It goes from a little red cirlce with a X in the middle of it to a blue circle with a question mark on it. If you click on it it opens IE and brings me to Virus Protect Pro's website. It pops up about every 2-4 minutes say the system detects spyware and to click there to dl stuff to remove it. Problem is it's annoying, no matter what I'm doing it will minimize the app or game so that I can be made aware of the problem. I need to get this thing off. Anybody have any exp. or suggestions they'd like to offer? Any help is most appreciated. Thanks in advance.
P.S. And yes, now I know not to DL stuff unless I KNOW what it is.
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