From: "Gaz" <gazter@msn.com>

| Come across the old 'fake' your system is infected with spyware scam today,
| the classic red circle with a white cross on the taskbar.

| This one has been around for years, but this new variant, you should be
| worried about. Full scan with hijackthis, full scan with superantispyware,
| scan with smitfraudfix, scan with avg rootkit revealer, found quite a few
| things, but as sppm as windows is booted up, the red circle came back.

| An old trick i havent seen for a while is back as well, anti spyware
| software needs their .exe files changed to allow them to be opened.

| Unable to fix, resorted to system restore...

| Gaz


You probably didn't research enough. You stopped at HJT. You should have also used
AutoRuns and Deckard's System Scanner for oddball load points then booted into the
Recovery Console and renamed the EXE/DLL files. Then you might have captured the buggers
such that they could be distributed to the anti malware vendors.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp