Since I consider my own internet behaviour as very low risk, not clicking on dubious attachments or links, and staying away from porn sites and so on, I thought this would never happen to me.

This is the story: after googling for the telephone number of a hotel in Bangkok, I clicked on a link. The website was black, and a small gray pop up appeared informing me that my computer was infected by a virus, inviting me to click on a "yes" button to remove the virus. Of course I closed the pop up and the website right away.

Since this happened, my laptop seems to have problems: doesn't close down properly sometimes, and regularly I have to restart in order to restore the wireless LAN connection.

Tried the restore option, but a recently created restore point, and other restore points before that, seem to have vanished.

I have run the Trend Micro housecall online virus removal program. It detected two malware objects (apart from the usual cookies), but after I clicked on the "remove" option nothing happened. Adaware likewise detected spyware (just cookies), but wasn't able to remove them.

Any suggestions? Thanks for your time.

My guess - you have been hijacked -

Download from http://www.freedrweb.com/ a program called CUREIT and run it. It's free.

I trust it can also be found in the TV software download section

What were the malware objects it detected Keestha?

OFF topic ( but funny ) i was feeling not so good one day, my thai wife says to me " you spend too long on the pc, i think you have virus ! ,she wasnt joking !

My guess - you have been hijacked -

Download from http://www.freedrweb.com/ a program called CUREIT and run it. It's free.

I trust it can also be found in the TV software download section

Thank you very much, Webfact. I downloaded and ran the program, and it detected and deleted two trojans (or two parts of one), called comreplc.dll and hwpvsbsj.sys Hope everything is fine and dandy now.