I had to remove a virus like that one time. It's a pain in the ass. The people I did it for, messed with it for days before they finally came and asked me.

It took me hours and I actually forgot the exact steps I took to get rid of it. Every time you go to a web site that can help, the virus kicks in and tells you you can't go to that web site, etc. The trick is finding some way to run legitimate anti-virus software which will probably remove it immediately.

There are free, legitimate, online scanners. Where you go to their web site and just run the scan from the web. But, I think that virus I had, every time I'd go to won, the virus would hijack the browser again.

That's the thing, I forget how I actually got the anti-virus to run successfully.

There's all kinds of people with all kinds of reasons why you should run whatever anti-virus they want you to. It's like a religious thing. But, AVG is free and is competitive with other solutions. After you get your computer fixed, just go to free.avg.com and download the free version. Make sure it's doing nightly updates so it retrieves "definitions" of new viruses out there on the internet.

Also, make sure you have your Windows box doing automatic updates at night. That's really more important than running anti-virus software. Because, most of the times people's boxes get infected, it's due to an old hole in the software that Microsoft's already fixed, but people haven't installed the updates.

You may already be doing those two things, but those last 2 paragraphs, that's why the vast majority of people get infected.

Also, I did a little more research after I finally got that virus removed. The virus I had was actually financed to be written by the mafia. Forget now, but yeah. I think it's the same mafia that Italian guys, the Sopranos was based on...