Danielle
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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/v87/untoashes/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.
(Try to ignore the conversation behind it...)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v87/untoashes/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.
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