"micorsoft" titled extra windows pop up

[Kara W]

A Microsoft Explorer browser window with the misspelled
title "micorsoft" constantly appears in the program
taskbar at the bottom of the screen. How do you stop these
renegade windows from appearing?

 

[mac]

A Microsoft Explorer browser window with the misspelled
title "micorsoft" constantly appears in the program
taskbar at the bottom of the screen. How do you stop these
renegade windows from appearing?

from a post by Frank Saunders, MS-MVP:

Get and run these four programs:
Ad-Aware:
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/
and
Spybot - Search & Destroy -
http://security.kolla.de/index.php?lang=en&page=download
http://spybot.eon.net.au/
http://www.tomcoyote.org/SPYBOT/
and
BHO Demon: http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads/bhod/
and
SpywareBlaster:
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/spywareblaster.html