Looking for the name of a Malware/spyware program.

(Let me preface the next information by saying that with my initial hours of work below the home I was at did not have an active phone line... no updates were possible...> ARRRRGGGHHH)

I have a steady (non-computer) job but as I work myself into the IT field I do side jobs to keep my feet wet. I have removed spyware from more than a hundred computers and have always been able to get rid of all major problems in 1-4 hours. I was working on a computer last night that had a program I have seen quite a bit lately. It sits on top of the desktop, preventing you from clicking the actual desktop. I would like to know the name of this program if anyone has any idea.

I have always seen it with a black backround and large, underlined letters that say "WARNING Your Computer MAY be infected." I do not have the offending computer infront of me and am going back to the customer on Monday to re-install the OS if necessary. I would rather not do this.

The method I have used in the past to fix this is to first use AdAware with vx2. Run spybot s&d. Then uninstall any unknown programs in the add/remove panel. The programs that will not let me have access to them in this panel I go into the registry, do a search for those programs and remove them. I can not find the name of the program this time.

Every other scan I have tried including hijack this has not removed the offending program. (Hijack this was unable to remove an LSP(?) item and suggested an updated spybot to do this. Which I was unable to do because of the phone line.)

Anyone have a guess at the name of the offending program?


Thanks, Sean