Firstly, I'd like to express my gratitude to Crunchie and the rest of the crew here that helps solve problems for people like me. I haven't encountered a pc-help site that's been so welcoming and...

Oh Smurf. I'm sorry for not replying earlier, I was on vacation and just got back in!

Thanks so much everyone! I gave "reputation+" to anyone that tried to help =)

So far, following the reboot, things are looking good (desktop is back, havent seen the malware popup crap). Here's Smitfraud:

SmitFraudFix v2.297

Scan done at 15:31:53.54, Thu 03/06/2008
Run...

Sorry to reply so late -- I didn't get home until a few minutes ago. Firstly, thanks again for anyone and everyone helping me out with this problem. If at any point my replies were rude, I apologize...

Ugh, I downloaded the program, but when I put it to scan, after a while (I left it alone, thinking it would take a long time), I came back to see the blue screen of death ("Physical dump memory, etc...

I took print-screens of all the files you asked me to check via those two online sites, I didn't see a link for a log or anything, I can upload the jpegs at imageshack or something if those are what...

Alright, got HJT through, here's the new log:

Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2
Scan saved at 01:27, on 2008-03-04
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer...

My computer's going nuts -- it took me several tries to run ComboFix, I finally had to go through safemode to get a log. It now crashes "explorer.exe" after like 10-20 minutes of using the computer,...

I tried doing that with HJT, and t hen it asked me to restart.

I restarted, and it just gave me the same crap again (I scanned again with HJT and it had the same stuff I deleted)

Also, I...

Hello all,
Thanks in advance for any and all help. About 3 days ago, this annoying piece of crap made its way onto my computer -- it pops up every 5 minutes or so with a balloon message, or...