When I updated the CA antivirus in April I also trialled their antispyware which detected a trojan - I wasn't sure at the time if that was just marketing to get one to upgrade, but also thought that trojans were supposed to be picked up by the antivirus, so I didn't continue with it, partly also because they required a full payment not an upgrade payment to dual system. I ran the Onecare program again today and it found more items to clear, termed as serious, however, again it couldn't clear 2 items which it gave the same virus term to.
Manual full scan of CA program including in safe mode didn't show any virus, however, going to MS site and running their online Onecare program detected several issues most of which it could clean, including the Spware Protect popups, but left 2 under what it termed as 'virus - virtool:wine32/obfuscator.fh'. Have CA antivirus and AdAware but don't currently have antispyware.
Story began with Spyware Protect 2009 popping up. This is an a private laptop, not used for business. Sorry in advance for complete novice sound of the following, but that's what I am.