OT HEEEELP MY @#*%& COMPUTER IS *$&%%&

[Suicide Junkie]

Ugh. You were using IE weren't you.
Active X isn't the adware, though. Its just Microsoft's nastyware doggie-door.

Grab Mozilla/Firefox or one of the other soon-to-be-suggested safe and open-source browsers.

Then try to figure out what the nasty is actually called.
You could try googling for (and posting here) a more detailed description of what you see, and see if it turns up anything.

[Starhawk]

My spyware killer calls it (eXact Homeshoppingbuddy) or something like that, I delete it but the dang Active X keeps re-attaching it

Okay my Windows OS is XP
My Browser is Cox HighSpeed with popupblocker enabled