I just walked Tim through removing spyware from his prof.’s computer using Adaware. Apparently, the spyware made it impossible for him to navigate to the Lavasoft (maker of Adaware) site, but fortunately he was able to download the installer from download.com.
It came as little surprise when Adware crashed the first time though. If I were a spyware-author, I would make it crash and then some. Tim restarted Windows in “Safe Mode” and ran it again. Adaware caught 278 separate pieces of mal-ware, which it quarantined.
“Is that a lot?”
It’s far more than I’ve ever seen.