I've had a friends laptop for the past two nights to fix "lots of dodgy popups appearing when i connect to the internet". I've removed about 800 pieces of adware on the machine, about 150 virus's (most of them already on there, but the rest kept coming back). The machine now seems to be clean from adaware, spybot and NAV and my own inspection of the registry which I had to clean manually as spybot et all miss a lot of them. I've found that the av software will normally delete the files (although in this case NAV said it couldn't but I could delete them from dos) but leave the registry entries behind. Or, the antispyware software deletes the registry entries but leave behind the files!
Anyway - my problem is that its almost there now. Using ie (no flames please) it seems to be ignoring background colours. For example in the MT menus at the top you have the MT logo, then Menu | Help | Logout | view site. Normally this is in the same colour blue/grey as the mt logo on the left of the screen. Not so here - the background for the menu is white, but the MT logo appears normally.
I've checked the css setting in ie and thats not set.
Web pages look very odd with no background. The colours are all wrong too. Looking at absoblogginlutely, there is no background image, the positioning is correct, but the text is just straight black unless its a link which is blue. Normally there is black, orange and grey text.
I'm not sure if this is a result of overzealous cleaning of the registry or what but its very weird.
