I can't seem to fix this myself, so here I am

I have never had even a single virus before, thanks to BitDefender Pro, AdAware, and Spybot (and being careful) but last Friday night my personal XP system got hit in a major way. While I was away from the keyboard for dinner it acquired 18 new desktop shortcuts, so many IE popups that my task bar was full of nothing but tiny icons, 100% CPU utilization, and so on. BitDefender was going crazy with "virus blocked" and "do you want to allow this program to access the internet" popups -- several per second -- and the system was virtually unusable.

I have read "How to: Spyware, Trojan And Virus Removal" and I followed the checklist as carefully as I could. It looks like I have knocked the infection back a bit, but even after all of the scans showed that everything was ok, the popups have returned and my firewall is still seeing different programs like "Buddy" pinging away a few times an hour. There are several executables like bmsuxmvwgm.exe and nail.exe that simply won't stay deleted. I could continue but you get the idea. It's quiet right now but I think it is just playing possum.

I have already blown a day and a half wresting with this monster and I want to find a solution and get on with my life. I am comfortable with RegEdit and just about anything else you want to throw at me, but it's clear that I need some experienced help with this.

What's next?

Oh yeah, and who can I punch in the mouth after all of this is over?

-- EJP

 

Never mind.

I was able to get rid of Aurora (Buddy) and nail.exe by using the unistaller that I found mentioned in another thread, and then the various scanner programs in the FAQ were able to clean up the rest.

SpyBot, AdAware, and BitDefender all say I'm clean. Finally!

But I'd still like to punch whoever is responsible in the mouth.

-- EJP