We dont have money to buy anything atm and our computer (which is the center of our home) is freaking out on us. What is a good, safe program i can download? give me a a link please.
But: If you already caught a cold no virus program will help you AFTERWARDS.... They work a bit like condoms.. they can protect before something happens! Once your gf is pregnant no condom will help you out no more if you get what I mean.
Most likely you can safe your computer by using Windows XP's/Vista's 'System Recovery' to restore your computer to any point of time before your comp run mad and check all entries which will start programs at boot time.
If it cant be found it might remain in your registry or make a backup of itself, (it may also be one of them hiding viruses which I forgot the name of) sometimes when I experience viruses I remove them with AVG but they make a backup of themselves, Personally, I'd recommend first doing a scan with any decent virus scanner you can try AVG free if you like, and also do a spyware scan with Spybot S&D (yes this program is free)
Finally finding about some of the bots that are flooding the users online - bytespider apparently is a huge offender here - ignores robots.txt and comes in from a ton of different IPs
Ghan has said he has fixed this. Monovertex please confirm this fix. This was only a problem with people that had signatures in the upper levels like not the special members but the respected members.