Help! My computer is telling me I have a spyware and trojan

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ZiggyDoodle:
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, the ZoneAlarm is only a 15 days free trial,

That's probably the pro version; you can download the free version without restrictions.  Hunt around at the ZA site and you'll find it.  A good thing about ZA (including the freebie) is that you can engage an Internet lock, or stop all Internet activity through the icon in your tool bar.  ZA not only monitors incomings to your computer, but what is outgoing as well - which the Windows "firewall" does not do (maybe it will in Vista).  ZA has no effect on my gameplay speed - but then, I'm at dialup at home so I just shut it down completely.  If you lock out all 'Net activity while you play, don't see why it would affect your game speed.

IE sucks, even version 7. I refuse to allow it on either my office or home machines.  Firefox is much slicker, faster, smaller, and secure.  My boss used to foul up his system regularly because of the crappy websites he would visit using IE.  Since I hid the IE icon on his computer and installed Firefox and ZA, his system has been clean. 

dizzy:
ZoneAlarm was always bloated and buggy in my experience. My personal choice was Sygate back when I still allowed Windows to talk to the internet.

ThyGuy:
You might need to crt-alt-del and shut down all the programs. If you find a asshole program that won't let you turn it off, you can force it to shut down by turning off "explorer.exe". If you know the program name for ad-aware, you can run adaware with explorer off, and it leaves virtually all bad program defenseless to stop from getting deleted.

when you're finished. Either restart your computer, or restart explorer.exe.

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