My firewall/anti-virus program, Zone Alarm, keeps warning that it has found Win32.Adware.Beginto.C. It's classed as a medium to low threat and ZA wants to either quarantine or destroy it. I am also running Spybot S&D. A special Trojan search did not stop it from returning. Ralf Kinsberger
The Zone Alarm Suite should be able to remove Beginto.C, and if removal has not worked, try booting your PC into Safe Mode by pressing the F8 key while it is starting. If that does not work, the free AVG Anti-Spyware, formerly called Ewido, can deal with it. As always, you should run the program when you download it, run it again after rebooting, and perhaps run it again in Safe Mode. For best results, run it with no browser or other software loaded.
However, note that Safe Mode will probably mess up the layout of your desktop icons, so if you are fussy about this, take a screen shot of your desktop first.
Backchat: Re Safe Mode messing up your icon layout. Philip Bergman says he uses a "little piece of freeware called Icon Restore" to save and restore them. James Dingwall uses Midi-Ox's Desktop Restore. He says: "I have found this particularly useful on my laptop as I use different screen resolutions for docked/undocked."
