My bout with Spyware

I had my first very serious bout with Spyware. And sadly enough, it won the war. I won the first round by identifying the Spyware, but the originator had hid it very well and would have taken me some more time to get to the root of it. But this was the computer in a corporate organization where re-installation is not a big deal and to top it, the computer was the home computer of the President of the company where I work as a contractor. So my objections of not giving up didn't count.

The computer actually was taken over by someone (I would have loved to find who) and was acting as a Zombie for that person spamming all over the place. There was a rouge process called 18.tmp running on the computer and was not getting killed. I worked for only 30 minutes and figured out some articles
here, here and here. I did not get chance to try out some of the things I know, but I am sure it will come up again sometime and at that I will be ready to kill.

I have started a war against Spyware and Adware, but this incident is going to take it to active combat levels.

If you need services of Spywareman, then let me know. The friendly neighbourhood Spywareman will be there to help.

Did anyone had similar experiences? Let me know.