[Flieger]

I got rid of a rogue antivirus last year with spyware doctor. I broke down and paid for a year subscription. The free tools I tried wouldn't get rid of it and it only took a few minutes with the spyware doctor so it was worth it in my book.

I hope you have backed up your files.

Even with the virus gone there still were lingering problems that a local computer guy fixed (for a fee of course).

I have Vista, though. I was able to boot into SM with network and go online. I had to use IE, though because the virus was blocking Firefox even in Safe Mode.