So I let my younger brothers on my computer while I went to the store, and when I get back I have new icons and a new homepage, oh and a bunch of cool new pop-ups. They won't tell me where they went, or what they were doing... Soooo it was probably a ring of pornsites... They blamed it on their myspace. Anyway:

Don't go here just in case, but the new home page is "www dot safetyuptodate dot com" (I wrote it like that to prevent whatever).

Also I get an exclamation point inside a delta (triangle) in my start menu toolbar every few minutes. I can't right click it, but when I left click it sends me to a few different "spyware detection" places. I googled the programs and they are all problem programs associated with spyware (malware wipe, pesttest?, and something else).

I viewed a few different forums where people had the same problem, and they said to use the typical adaware, spybot - search and destroy, and whatever virus scanner. I did that. I also found one about hijack this. I haven't used that program, but it seems like something to mess up my computer further if I make a mistake... so this is where I am asking for your help.

Has anybody had this problem? How did you take care of it? And, Do you recommend any other programs, preferably free, that will work? I will pay if I have to, but I believe I can get rid of it without doing so. It is just annoying as of right now. So any feedback would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Wishus