Thanks, turns out I had unintentionally installed the free trial previously, and it needed an reboot to finish deinstalling, so the free one...
Installed on Windows 8.1, got "The connection to the server has failed, the product could not be activated. Check the connection and try again"....
I have an easy time finding this for anti-virus, and I dug up a couple sites that compare those against malware, but where my google-fu is failing...
As for the dialler program, wouldn't such likely have been found with AdAware SE/Webroot? Unfortunately format is a no can do (for both...
Ok.. I guess I might do better by describing a bit more about things.. The 'first' machine, the emachines one connects with a dialup modem.. Since...
Well I decided to post in the forum as I didn't see anything like an 'unknown issue possibly related to virus/trojan/spyware' kinda forum.. :)...
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