Over the last few days i've noticed my computer running funny: Programs freezing alot, constantly having to reboot, or sometimes force a reboot, overall running a whole lot slower. Today i started getting IE pages that seem to open themselves, i didn't think to much of it. I noticed another site I visit alot (and yes fully trustworthy) was running a promo to get McAfee free for a year. Since i don't have any protection now i thought it would be a good idea. Downloaded it, and can't get it to run (i've been working wiht McAfee techs trying to get that fixed, still in process). While trying to fix that, the IE pages started popping up more and more. Computer froze, I went to hit ctrl-alt-del to close down the IE pages that where frozen, but my task manager is GONE! So i cancel out of that, right click on the task bar thinking i will get to it that way, nope its shadded out and unselectable.
During searching what would cause my task maanger to disappear i read about spyware or something that can do that. So i download spyware doctor. The results of that are posted below. Am i infected with something serious? How can i fix this?
trojan.fakealert - 21 infections
trojan.generic - 23 infections
application.trackingcookies - 32 infections
spyware.known_bad_sites - 7 infections
adware.advertisiing - 19 infections
Thanks!!!