I read your page re: WebHancer spyware and discover that it's harder to get rid of than you described (and you didn't make it sound easy in the first place!).

I did everything to remove WebHancer. Basically, no matter what I did, it would leave my machine unable to connect to web pages. Big, nasty errors in every program that goes to the web (not just IE). It was amazing! I installed WebHancer and uninstalled it, ran Ad-Aware, and all sorts of other things. Basically, I got it down to a very reproducible situation - Install WebHancer and eveything is fine, uninstall or delete it (no matter how) and everything breaks. It's as simple as that.

I think I originally got "infected" with WebHancer when I installed AudioGalaxy. I've read that those types of WH installs can be problematic. But, everyone (webHancer themselves, Microsoft, etc.) seems to think that the install/uninstall thing should solve the problem. I'm here to tell you that it doesn't. 

I'm giving up on it. I removed WHAgent from my start sequence and that seems to get it out of the task list. I'm sure the spyware is still running, but I'm sick of screwing up my machine trying to get rid of it. 

I don't know if you've had this exact thing reported before, but I thought it might be informative to some poor soul out there beating their head against the same wall I have for the last six hours. FYI, I'm in Win98 SE.