CherryPieDesign

Nevermind, I needed to solve the problem asap as I am going to be away from net access for a week so reinstalled vista from the recovery drive as I don't have many things to transfer over.

You may delete this thread or reply if you think it is possible that the virus could have hit the recovery partition and still be lingering.

I had tried the earliest restore point and all the other fix options that are available with vista before taking the reformatting route but nothing worked. I just kept getting more and more .dll errors everytime it restarted.

If it happens again I will be sure to come back here as you all seem like a very knowledgable and helpful bunch. Thanks again and I will keep my eyes peeled for a response about the possibility that my recovery drive was infected.

Sarah