Drivecleaner virus and firefox. Why is drivecleaner stalking me?

fox_terrier_guy — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:42:30 -0800

Firefox and disk cleaner virus - not sure if I have the virus or not.... I have firefox 2.0.0.4, avisoft antivirus, and zonealarm on my work and home PCs and all software is up to date. Regardless, I seem to have contracted the diskcleaner virus. On both computers, it behaves exactly the same way; that is, the disk cleaner pop up comes up in the lower right hand corner of my screen, and when I close it via the "X", firefox closes. I don't want to click anywhere else on the window for obvious reasons.

When Firefox is restarted, it has a new window size. I got it thru Stumbleupon. (www.stumbleupon.com)

I've googlefu'd the groups and can't find any reason why it is happening. Symantec among others says to reboot in to safe mode, do a regedit, etc., etc., and I have done that, but I don't have the same reg keys that the article says, and I don't have a Diskcleaner directory on my drive. In other words, I seem to have the symptoms, but not the disease.

At work, I am behind a firewall, and at home my wireless router connected by cable.

My Mac laptop doesn't have this problem.

So, do I have the virus or not? Is there a definitive source of info on this? This is starting to piss me off.

Thanks in advance.

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