Hooray! Rock and Roll! That did it. is there anything else I need to clean-up? What about all my virus spyware programs. What to keep? what to dump? Thanks.
Great! I'm glad you're computer is finally back to normal.
It wouldn't hurt for you to keep all those security apps, obviously McAfee did a poor job of protecting you. You can remove HiJackThis now, you can always download the newest version again if a situation like this arises plus you can really damage your PC by removing the wrong things. I suggest making a habit of scanning your machine once a week with SUPERAntispyware and/or Ad-Aware at the very least, don't forget to update the detection databases first. You also might want to look into Spyware Terminator which offers free real-time protection.
Also, now that you are back to normal I recommend turning system restore back on and setting a new restore point.
- JPH