@dragonmaster Jay
Hey, not sure if your link "
http://www.f-secure.com/en_US/security/security-lab/tools-and-services/online-scanner/ " works or combo fix worked. Yesterday, after I ran combofix, it worked about 20 so mins, and the popups came back up again. Then this morning, it didn't come up. Anyway, saw your post, and tried your link and found 1 malware and 2 spyware and cleaned it.
After that, I also ran full scan for malware and microsoft security essential (nothing found)
then reboot it and run combofix again, and my norton antivirus found quite a few hacking spyware/virus
Now it seems like everything works okay, sound is back to normal. No popups. Thanks!
@Mr. Hopeless.
Try what I did, it may work for you. If it doesn't, download a software called popup killer, and it close all the popups you specify, but that is surface or temporary fix. Either continue trying or reformat the whole C drive (last resource which I don't recommend because sooner or later this kind of spyware/malware will come back, we need to know how to fix it)
My advise is once everything is fine and okay, backup your whole C drive as image or copy c:\windows\*.* , if there is problem, you can ren your old c:\windows to something and restore the good c:\windows\*.* back, then it should be okay (that is my last resource.. instead of formatting whole drive) by the way, I use apricon to backup.