System infected by agressive Activex

Yesterday I got a popup on my screen and an error message telling me I had a system failure regarding a connection error. It seems that an E-mail I have opened must have contained a hidden and agressive activex file that continually tries to connect me to this site and my Norton Firewall stops it.

I can find my way around a computer pretty well but this thing has me stumped and I'm sure I'm not the first person to get this and maybe someone has already found the solution. No, I didn't visit any porn sites and no I have no idea where it came from other than my guess that it might have been burried in an e-mail or how it got through Norton VirusScan and Norton Firewall. I didn't download anything and really would love to meet the guy that wrote this software. Angry on my part is an under-statement!

The web site that this software tries to access is:

***WARNING DO NOT ACCIDENTLY GET YOURSELF INFECTED BY CLEANING UP THIS ADDRESS AND CLICKING ON IT***

****http://sergey7.offshoreclicks.com/di...p?u=sergey7***

Any help anyone can give me in removing the hidden software from my system would be greatly appreciated. I have run Norton and AdAware and both come up clean. I removed all activex controls I can find but there are two that are hidden and I can't find them.

First thing is to delete your IE history, temp files and objects.
Next scan your system for virus, spyware and other pests. I use Pest Patrol. A soft firewall will also indicate what program is attempting to access the Internet. If it is just IE, removing IE objects should cure it. Tools, Internet Options, Settings, View Objects

Thanks for the reply,

I'm really on a mission!

Prior to your post I had cleaned everything out of every temp file and history file in XP. Ran Norton VirusScan and Ad-Aware patted myself on the back for being so thorough reboted and in ten minutes another message.

Finally I did a search on Redlabel.scr, the name on the error message and had the search include all files. I found Redlabel.scr in the screen saver file and another file in the prefetch files. Deleted them both. We will see what happens now.

I'd check that Objects folder. You can get all kind of crap in there; phone dialers, etc.

I found three entries in the registery and removed them all. So far so good!