[StreamOfTheSky]

Has anyone else encountered this horrible pest? It's called Windows XP 2008 Antivirus, and it is some kind of spyware. It left my background plain blue with an error message that won't go away advising me to use my antivirus software to get rid of two files, win32/Adware.Virtumonde and win32/Privacy Remover.M64, it claims I have. It also seems to have blocked my access to windows update, stopped my ability to install spybot (which I saw on a youtue video comment -- more below -- could fix it), makes it so if you do a search engine search on it, it spits out useful-sounding links that bring you to nowhere, fouls up text size on other pages, and other annoyances.

Thanks to youtube, I was able to at least learn a bit on it, but all the suggestions I've seen there haven't be an option for me so far. For example, using System Restore to rid myself of it would be a great idea...if the spyware hadn't wiped out every single restore point prior to getting infected.

So, I'm getting desperate now. Anyone have solutions I could try? I never even clicked to accept the stupid thing when it prompted me to, yet I still got it. I was under the impression these sorts of tings required you to at least click on a bad link or some such.