>When I returned in the evening and checked it, I see lots of words (such as application, for example) underlined now with weird popup messages trying to send me to some shopping sites.
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>What should I do to get rid of it? I have Trend Micro OfficeScan which I am running now.
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>Hi All.
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>The same thing just happened to me - The last thing that I installed was FireFox - and after that the problem started happening. I use Avast and all my scans come up clean.
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>What did you do to fix this?
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>TIA.

Hi Marcia,

These instructions cure it for me

http://malwaretips.com/blogs/finally-fast-popup-virus/

Basically,

I first removed these programs from Control Panel manually myself. Then I ran AdwCleaner and JRT.exe.

The problem seems to be gone.