Recently I had my C: drive reformatted and afterward forgot that the default security settings in IExplorer are moderate and needed to be raised again. I was googling for some lyrics to a song, went to a webpage with the lyrics and suddenly two installation icons appeared in my task bar. I could do nothing to stop them and within seconds two programs, "Virtual Bouncer" and "AdDestroyer" were deeply entrenched within my system. They seemed to have opened the door for other such programs, because more and more kept appearing out of nowhere after that at such speeds that AdAware and Spybot Destroyer were useless. Every time I used the aforementioned programs to scan and fix the problems, they did not disappear and were still there when I rescanned. I had to have someone help me remove them manually.
One of the malicious programs appeared a few hours after the initial attack and added icons to my desktop, favorites, start menu, as well as hijacked my desktop wallpaper. It added itself to my display settings so that it's webpage covered my regular wallpaper, as explained in the thread mentioned above.
It took me fully a week to get the system clean again. Thankfully, the thread above fixed the desktop. It was a simple fix, but extremely hard to find information on!
Now I just need to figure out why my sound stopped working during the infestation.
