for like a week now ive been gettiong a pop up from Norton antivirus saying it has detected a virus called "Downloader.Dluca" or somthing like that and it says its unable to repair the file, or even get access to it. when it comes up i have to click the "OK" button like 5 times for it to go away. also my homepage has been set differently to a site which launches lots of pop ups when i click IE, and the site changes almost daily.
Are these prblems related, or not? ive tried a full system scan and thats the only infected file it comes up with but it cannot fix it. what do i do? :(

visit www.sarc.com and lookup the virus, Symantec may have a virus removal tool for that specific virus you can download and run.

http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/da...r.dluca.b.html

Thanks Rogue! this is the same one i have...now i just gotta try and remove it. im not too good with computers and such, but im going to try :?

the program should remove it. all you should have to do is click a button and watch the fireworks. or watch the paint dry.depends on how long it takes.

LowLyfe83, You say your homepage is changing daily and getting pop-ups along with it. Looks like you have some spyware running around in your pc. I use NSW2003 and NIS2003. In the past I have received a few notices where Norton could not repair the infected file. I just deleted it with no problems. Hope you don't have Gator or Bonzo Buddy. They are known culprits for spyware. I use Ad-Aware and SpyBot reguraly to keep the bugs out. I also use the free ver of pop-up stopper and it works. Below are some links for your viewing pleasure.
Ad-Aware http://www.lavasoftusa.com
SpyBot http://security.kolla.de/
popup stopper http://www.panicware.com

Exactly. My users here sometimes stumble into sites where these hijackers install themselves on your computer "behind the scenes". I use Ad-Aware Professional 6.0, and Spy-Bot, the latter being awesome. This should get rid of it.