malware spyware threats
How do I get rid of spyware bubble and popups?

I’m getting an icon on my taskbar by the clock, it’s a yield sign with an exclamation mark that says “System Alert: Malware Threats.” I also randomly get popups leading me to spyware sites that I know are just more viruses or spyware.

How can I get rid of these for free?
I have AVG and Ad-Aware 2007, have ran both several times, they each find stuff, I have them get rid of them but they always find more and the popups keep happening.

Those could be caused by either a smitfraud or a vundo (virtumonde) variant. While Superantispyware is effective in remove *many* variants of both smitfraud and vundo, the tools of choice are the smitfraudfix (run in safe mode) and vundofix.
> smitfraudfix: http://siri.geekstogo.com/SmitfraudFix.php
> vundofix: http://www.atribune.org/content/view/24/2/

It wouldn’t hurt anything to run both, doesn’t take any extra time and just remove them when done. Also I would suggest running Superantispyware after to remove any other malware that may have gotten in.
> Superantispyware: http://www.superantispyware.com/

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