I've been a baaaaad PC user.

So today I'd set SpyBot to search my computer as soon as it booted up, and god damn.  The names flying by; I'm seeing cursor sites I visited years ago, "PartySluts" (I can honestly say that I have no idea where that came from; the porn I visit has CLASS.), XXXdialer, DialerX, DialerY, Dialer1, Dialer2... every shady website I'd ever visited in my entire life but 4chan seems to have  a toenail in my comp.  I'm like the town bicycle, it seems.

And the best part?  Spybot only flagged six of them as worthy of deletion; six possible security breaches and userIDs that I "delete" every single time I use Spybot, but which always come back to piss me off.  The same with a folder that AdAware finds, too.  After seeing what else is on my computer besides these seven, I've found that I'm really beginning to get annoyed at the fact that only half of my processing speed and HD is actually being used by me these days.

So how do I wrench it back, folks?  Do I need to completely wipe my HD and switch to Linux in order to be free of this shit?

download ubuntu, do a clean install.

>>2
Wouldn't that involve backing up all my cool shit first?

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>>4
does that really work?

run spyware doctor in safe mode problem solved

>>1
If you can't keep a Windows install clean, then yes, download and install Ubuntu.

On the other hand, if you can refrain from being a dumbass and actually avoid malware, do a clean install of Windows, if you really like or need Windows.

>>3
Bump for answer.

>>7
Eh, I'm much better at using computers than I was four years ago, but the problem is that all the shit I did when I was a stupid newbie apparently stayed behind to haunt me.

>>9
4 years. my god man you are STILL a n00b