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Nasty Packet of Malware and Badware from ScamSearch.com

Echoing the previous post: Don't go to that site! Here's a partial list of some of the malware the site pipelined into my laptop -- I've been trying to fix it since 10 a.m. this morning and it's now about 4 p.m. I had Avast! turned on and my firewall turned off, by the way:
Win32:Agent-LV2[Rtk]
hupigon13, a Chinese virus that attacked Korea a few years ago;
nurech;
Win32Delf,
and more. Site should be taken down; we're going to work on that. I had to run Spybot twice, download something called SDFix that I had to run from Windows safe mode, download and run AVG's free anti-rootkit software, and reboot about 20 times (after several freeze-ups that caused me to unplug my power cord and remove my battery...)

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