Any info on adsandads?

my wife's machine started behaving weird.
On IE7, a huge number of tabs would open without a reason, they were all blank pages but you could see the address, cpv.adsandads.net followed by some querystrings with the page you last typed on the address bar (such as BBC.co.uk).

I haven't found much information but Symantec does know about it.

http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2007-102514-4805-99&tabid=3

it's a badly written malware apparently, but I don't know how it got there, a Yahoo toolbar also appeared and my wife said she did not install it (and I believe her), the toolbar was also installed on Firefox. She rarely uses Firefox so it's unlikely she installed the toolbar, and I know I didn't because I hate them.

I'll try the Symantec's procedure but would like to know how it got there. Unless it's crap from Yahoo that went wrong. (We know what Sony did so others might try the same stuff.

 

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