Judy,

Yes, the computer seems to be running as well as it ever does (which is slow, but that is explained by the horrible lack of adequate RAM in my machine...)

I just wanted somebody...

Oops. Forgot to post the actual HJT scan log. Here it is, for what it's worth:

Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2
Scan saved at 10:33:50 PM, on 1/25/2009
Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT...

Greetings,

Roughly a week ago, my wife had a run-in with "MS Antivirus" while doing some shopping on-line. Not being particularly computer savvy -- even less savvy than me, and that's saying...

First of all, my apologies for letting this go so long. My intent was to let these changes "ferment" for a few days to make sure everything was working as it should, and then call this solved. ...

Things seem to be working well. I'm trying out FireFox, and some of the stuff I don't quite understand might just be my inexperience with that browser. Anyway, both Google searches and AOL mail...

Hello Judy,

I followed your directions. I searched for and found the PowerReg program while the ESET scan was running. I deleted it after the scan -- all 89 minutes of it -- had completed.
...

Thanks Judy.

Okay, I rebooted to let MBA-M do its thing. Then I ran ESET scanner and HiJackThis. ESET scanner log and HiJackThis log and uninstall list follow.

ESET scanner log:

# version=4...

I was able to download some of the suggested cleanup tools to a flash drive at my place of employment, and I copied these to the desktop of the infected computer.

Following PhilliePhan's...

gerbil,

Thanks for the suggestions. I've not tried any of them, but I may yet depending on how things go here.

Some helpful souls at my place of employment convinced me to switch to FireFox,...

Thanks for the reply, Judy.

I tried downloading the Malwarebytes' software as you suggest, but, again, Internet Explorer tells me it "cannot display the web page" (whether I click on it or paste...

Hello,

My desktop computer is having problems with Internet Explorer. Much of the time (every time?) I click on links in "google" search results, I get redirected to "go.google.com", or I just...

Pete here.

I'm more of a hardware guy than software -- Just coming up on 20 years of digital and mixed-signal integrated circuit design. I know how to write hardware description language code,...