Virus or adware?

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Stelcom

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Recently two of our PCs have been bombarded with pop ups, or adware. While going to any site suddenly something like WinAntivirus pro 2007 or DriveCleaner will "take over" the internet browser and do a fake scan and say many files are infected. Trying to cancel still goes to the download site. We've tried running (all free versions so far) Lavasoft's Ad-Aware, McAfee,
Windows Defender & Windows malicious software removal tool. After scanning they'll find items, such as Webbuying, we'll delete them but the next day they'll reappear. I wonder do we have a virus that hasn't been removed. Any recommendations would be appreciated. I wouldn't mined paying for a virus removal tool if I knew it was reliable. It did bookmark the ThreatFire site seen on the top of this forum. I may try that. I also wonder does some site keep sending adware to our DSL ip address? I don't really think so because I've restarted the DSL modem twice last week to obtain a new address. My son's pc rarely gets these pop-ups, all he's running is the free AOL Security Center package.
 
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Download and run highjackthis, I'm sure one of the boys here can help you out. Run the system scan

Just a Thought, the malware could have screwed with you winsock files, the LSP files included are used needed to discern DNS adresses into IP's. Grap LSPfix and run to see if it shows any errors.

http://cexx.org/lspfix.htm
 
please post ur HijackThis logs here, so we can have a look at the infections.
anyways, I think cleaning the registry would work
 
Ended up buying Spywarebot along with the option to scan the registry. It found 600+ infections yesterday, 10 today. If there's a way I can send what it found, I will. But I thought the program would have prevented more from coming in. I'll need to make sure it's always on, maybe it wasn't. I removed the free version of Ad-Aware. I guess sometimes it's better just to spend a bit of money, but time will tell if it's going to be effective.
 
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