removal of spyware (Score 1)

I have had spyware that was damm hard to remove. It was one of those "browser hijackers" that would direct to one of those sites that sell domain names. A spyware removal program found it but couldn't remove it. This was because it became part of the windows 98 operating system and any attempt to delete the file from the directory or the windows registry would give a "file in use" error. I ended up having to boot the computer in DOS mode and delete the file then reboot in windows.