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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BOZ" data-source="post: 3455548" data-attributes="member: 1241">you might be right.  still, combatting it hasn't been all hopeless.  just today symantec was going crazy asking me to reboot time and again, so i just took it to safe mode and ran SS&D and adaware, which found a bunch of crazy stuff, and for the last 3-4 hours i haven't had any popups nor activity from symantec (which is really good considering what i've been seeing from this machine lately).  i'd been getting browser hijacking and everything, but now it seems to have either stopped or at least paused.previously, i had run the full scan from Symantec... which ran for 40 hours, which is part of why i haven't been around here.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  what did that do?  not a whole lot, it seemed.  i still had the icons on my desktop pictured below, as well as yet another suspicious item in the tray at bottom right.however, both of those suspicious "spyware remover" items are gone as of today's Safe Mode cleaning, which leads me to believe even stronger that they were not kosher (and very annoying they were).those icons are still on my desktop, however.  nothing removed them, so do you figure it's safe to trash them?  like i said, nothing's been happening since that last scan, so i'm hoping with fingers crossed that it's all over (for now at the very least).</blockquote>

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