And spyware at the same time. I managed to restore my system to the previous day. I'm using XP home edition. It seems to have fixed the problem.

My question is can I depend on this as a permanent fix for this one occurrence or could this thing still attack again?

Thanks

depends if you repeat what you did to get it why dont you post a hijack this log and ill take a look

And spyware at the same time. I managed to restore my system to the previous day. I'm using XP home edition. It seems to have fixed the problem.

My question is can I depend on this as a permanent fix for this one occurrence or could this thing still attack again?

Thanks

Most likely not, a hijackthis log would be in order here as OneNation suggested. You can find a link in this thread along with more useful information:
http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread5690.html

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