You Know You Are In Trouble...
When this dialog box shows up:
Yes. It appears that my PC is infected with a virus/malware/badware.
What a relaxing and productive use of the Christmas vacation. Not!
Brian and Brian and Brad and David, you can start laughing at me now for not converting to a Mac.
Re: You Know You Are In Trouble...
That's the page I found and used. It worked. But that's only the easy part.
I have since scanned the hard drive a dozen times with various anti-virus/anti-spyware programs, starting with the free AVG products that I have installed, moving up to PrevX, Ad-Aware 2007 and finally Microsoft Windows Defender.
I have to deal with the C:\WINDOWS\Temp\~my1.tmp that refuses to be deleted. And a CLSID registry key that refuses to be deleted. Or things that reappear after reboot.
Now both Ad-Aware and Windows Defender think my PC is clean. But that C:\WINDOWS\Temp\~my1.tmp file is still around and is still locked by a process.
Re: You Know You Are In Trouble...
I got tired of the cycle of running a full system scan, kill the found virus, reboot, scan again, find more virus. That unkillable ~my1.tmp file, which is a DLL, also bothered me. On top of that there is this "your kernel32.dll, user32.dll, shell32.dll, and ntoskrnl.dll have all be changed" varning at the beginning of every virus scan. So I eventually pushed the big "destructive PC Recovery" button.
Should have done that at the beginning.