checked and fixed the wakemeup entry in hjt but doesn't seem to have gotten rid of it, checked by restarting and still there.

clamwin is a free antivirus recommended to me by a friend, hadn't noticed it doing anything strange (lets me shut it off w/out much fuss in task manager, which is actually probably not a great feature for an antivirus to have). now that i remember - i did actually uninstall (or attempt to) from the control panel but it claimed to have corrupted files and didn't uninstall properly...