Danielle

I was online the other night, chatting, and everything seemed to be fine. All of a sudden this wizard comes onto my screen, out of nowhere. When I hovered over it, all it said was 'Merlin'. I was so shocked I wasn't sure what to do, although I did manage a screen shot of it.

(Try to ignore the conversation behind it...)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v8...s/e7e31d93.jpg

My question is, what the hell is this and how did it get onto my computer? After seeing it, I ran a spyware scan, and two seperate virus/trojan scans, but all that showed up was four cookies in internet explorer, but I don't see how this program ..thing..could be from a cookie? It even showed up in the taskbar, but the only option for the program was show/hide, and it was even animated, running across the screen and walking around, even dissapearing in it's hat.

And yes, I am aware that it looks just like the wizard in the program Microsoft Word, but that isn't where this came from, because I don't even have this program on my computer, and never have.

If you have any idea as to what this is, please post and tell me. I'm lost.