Spyware on IE

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From: Ramesh (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/22/04 

Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:37:18 -0700

HI

I had a whole lot of spyware in my Toshiba laptop running
XP Home SP1. I ran Adaware and removed all the files and
entries. But they were back the moment I connected to
the net again. The file bridge.dll was manually removed.

XP had not been updated for a while. Hence I decided to
update but IE couldnt read from the site. Immediately
gets hijacked to some popups. Hence thought I will load
the SP2 which I had on CD. That made no difference, so I
uninstalled SP2.

There is no antivirus on the system. Tried to install
Grisoft AVG antivirus. Setup stops with the message File
not found Shell.dll. But this file is actually present.

What is my way out of this mess? Formatting has to be my
last resort.

Thanks for any help please.

Thanks
Ramesh

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