Removing spyware? (1 Viewer)

[Huratio]

Well firstly my computer has been plagued with horrible pop-up ads which come up like everytime I go to any website.

Using full system scans via Norton Internet Security and Windows Defender (worth a try), they came up with nothing.

So I did one of those online virus/spyware scans which picked up a random exe in 'Documents and Settings', file deletion does nothing as it says "the program is currently being used by a person/application.. blah blah".

Any suggestions on how I would remove this - highly recommended spyware removal programs that you have come across and are not as incompetent as NIS07 and Win Defender?

 

[sunny]

http://community.boredofstudies.org...uently-asked-questions-read-first.html#adware

 

[Huratio]

Which one is the best?

I don't want to go installing all of them and testing them out one-by-one.

edit:
e.g. everyone has conflicting ideas in this thread: http://community.boredofstudies.org/123/central/51902/official-bos-spyware-thread.html

 

[sunny]

Give Adaware a go first and see how that goes.

 

[Huratio]

Hmm.. It found some tracking cookies.

Don't know if that did it or not though - good thing is I'm not getting any more popups anymore (well now..)

Cheers sunny.

 

[Optophobia]

Try Adaware, and then even if it works, still install Spybot S&D afterwards and run it as well.

 

[Huratio]

Yeh I installed both Adaware and Spybot.. seems to be fine now thx.