got this irritating thing today possibly from email.  all the removal stuff i can find involves installing another one of those damned things : ( or when they mention manually getting rid of it, they are talking about files that don't exist (surely to push their own product.)
so anyone know how to get rid of it?  i haven't installed the software it asks to install.  it turned off the firewall and the virus protections.  it doesn't allow to turn the firewall on again, but i'm running virus scan right now.
i'm using xp.
thanks for any help. 

go that way really fast.
if something gets in your way
turn