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found a pretty cool util while i was trying to make sure my pc was clean of spyware (i had just downloaded and installed something a little fishy):



HijackThis

http://mjc1.com/mirror/hjt/



HijackThis examines certain key areas of the Registry and Hard Drive and lists their contents. These are areas which are used by both legitimate programmers and hijackers. It's up to you to decide what should be removed. Some items are perfectly fine. You should not remove them. Never remove everything. Doing that could leave you with missing items needed to run legitimate programs and add-ins. This Page will help you work with the Experts to clean up your system. For those of you needing instructions on how to Copy and Paste the contents of a text file into a Forum Post, please look at the Table of Contents. A link to the instructions is included.

there is also spybot and adware that do the same thing....if you use at least two of the three you can pretty much be sure ur pc is clean!