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[cygnus]

Watch out for something 'Zinaps Anti-Spyware' folks. It's a virus that nailed me just now. Not sure how I got it yet.

ETA: Found it, in the process of fixing it. Figured out how I got it: was looking for a transcript of a House episode, and found it on a site called "twiztv.com". There was something else right after that in my Firefox history from

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[anonymous]

I found the samething in my history and after repeatedly infecting my machine and cleaning it out again, I'm convinced that it was this site. In IE, it appeared to bring up a PDF document. Definitely block advance-actions.com.
(BTW, the site appears to be down now, so maybe it's not longer there.)

[anonymous]

I can't get rid of it, and tried everything. Now I have to deal with this fucking "Your computer is infected!" bullshit every 5 seconds.

[cygnus]

Dunno if you're going to read this again, but I was able to fix it by following the instructions here.

Good luck.