Okay.
No, Ross, I cannot remember opening an email like that, or going to that site. I'm not even sure why I would in the first place. I've followed Pieter's instructions as best I could, but the files he was saying needed to be removed, they weren't there! I definitely selected 'show hidden files,' so that wasn't the problem. They just weren't there, not the ones listed for any version of this smitfraud mother.
I deleted temp files, cookies, and I scanned with all that stuff, only for killbox, I don't know if I typed in the files correctly. It wouldn't let me paste, so I typed them in one at a time....I have absolutely no clue as to how that might be relevant, I'm just worried that it didn't work like it's supposed to.
See, the blue screen with the warning is gone and my desktop properties came back, but everything else is still there. Every time I reboot, all the warnings start blowing up again. The 'IE must close' and 'Windows Explorer must close' ones put in an appearance every minute or more (whether I'm trying to use IE or not), and none of my taskbar things work. Spywareguard works for a minute, and then blinks away. There's a message for all of them when Windows boots up that says they must close. Also, there are messages for things that have a lot of numbers and letters, saying they have to close, too. I guess these are processes?
And Raptor, while I can access Windows in this crippled state, IE is definitely not functioning.
I'm not at all sure what's been located so far. I'm using adaware and spybot and spywareblaster, and all the ones located listed in the wilders thread (I put them on a disc from another computer). I remember coolwebsearch and a bunch of popup things, and I definitely had (have) the smitfraud thing. Also, I saw on the adaware thing (it keeps being reborn), 'winn32.trojandownloader.small.aly' .
I'll copy my hijackthis log, but it's going to take a few minutes.
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