Virus 2

That night I come home and my wife tells me that the PC is effed up again. I went upstairs and it was locked up. Reboot and it's much the same situation as before. This time I notice in the registry that there's stuff with "extrac64_cab.exe" and "winhlp64.exe"

I'm running Win XP Sp3 32-bit, so any file that implies it's for a 64-bit OS is lying on my machine. Crap. More viruses to get rid of.

I do the same stuff as yesterday: safe mode, run Mbam which locks after a while, run SpyBot which locks after a while. Now I'm starting to get royally effed by this/these virus/malware apps.

At work the next day, I made a bootable CD using UBCD4Win. (Which I ended up using at work to help my boss reset the Admin password on an old PC we were reusing.)

That night I started my PC up using that boot CD and ran Mbam, SpyBot and A2Free.

We'll see how that's going when I get home tonight.