So a friend of mine had a virus called “Win32/Heur”. According to research, the Win32 Heur virus spreads via peer to peer programs such as iMesh, WinMX, Ares and torrents. This virus is nasty for a few reasons;

It actually records your browsing activities and displays advertisements to you based on your usage.
It de-activates your anti-virus [...]

If you’ve been experiencing a pop up from Trend stating something about a “possible HIFRM”, then no fear - we can tell you how to get rid of this annoyance!
1) Click the Start menu and select Control Panel
2) Double click Internet Options
3) Under the General tab click the Delete files button, under the Temporary [...]

If you’ve managed to attract the known trojan VirtuMonde - then you’re in trouble. This nasty trojan is known to act as a rogue antispyware program, showing advertisments and popups on your machine. Not only will it make your machine run slow, but also is known to perform denial of service attacks on websites of [...]

Weird popups? Porn? Messages advising you to purchase products? Internet Explorer homepage keep changing? Did you wallpaper disappear? System running slow?
All of the above are symptoms of spyware, which may have been introduced to your machine via various methods - which include activeX downloads and software you installed on your PC (such as Kazaa and [...]

The W32/Spar virus is a nasty little thing that often is found imbedded in files you may have downloaded through P2P programs such as Kazaa and Limewire.
You may find an annoying popup which states;
Patch applied succesfully! If your software is still trial maybe you need to install it before patch it.
To remove this virus, [...]