[Bob Kontak]

I would take Art up on his offer. Especially if you have a back up machine for a few days.

My comments - Not advising - just talking.....

I have worked on two XP machines with that stinker on them. I did not see the "attribute" problem Art describes but was finally able in safe mode/w networking to get Malwarebytes to update it's definition file and ran combofix and malwarebytes and that fixed it.

Before I was able to gain the malwarebytes updates I purged several processes using hijack this after looking up what the processes were on google. I killed anything that appeared non-essential. I am not sure if I killed the "ping" process (that is the "evil" process running I saw in task manager) that allowed me to update the definition file.

The second machine, I just reinstalled the op system.