Ah yes, I had Kaspersky's firewall disabled when I installed ZA, it must have re-enabled itself (I think from running combofix?). I'm using a trial of Kaspersky and I'm pretty sure I won't be able to afford to pay when it runs out, do you think using Kaspersky 6 would be effective enough? I have a few months license thanks to my gigabyte MB and now I don't feel so comfortable going back to AVG. Commodore and Spybot were the two other defenses this infection got past.

Also, thanks for your help! I really appreciate folks like yourself who help people with these problems...

phillip

...I was wondering if it might be possible to tell what the primary infection(s) might have been or even where they came from, ie internet browsing or downloading an infected executable. I even suspect my original install of nlite was infected from months ago, is this possible?