well i just reformatted i dl some stuff and this little shield thing on the bottom of my start menu pops up saying security warning adware porgrams detected when i dont have any because i istalled and scanned for spyware and ad-aware I have spybot search and destroy,freedom anti-virus, ad-aware se but the thign still wont go away!!!
Try a virus scan in safe mode. Also do a system wide adware scan in safe mode. Also check you program files it might be in there.