Hi babbs
Hopefully we've now found the real nasty behind all this.
You may want to print out these instructions for reference, since you will have to restart your computer during the fix.
Please download
AproposFix from here:
http://swandog46.geekstogo.com/aproposfix.exe
Save it to your desktop but do
NOT run it yet.
Then please reboot your computer in Safe Mode by doing the following:
1) Restart your computer
2) After hearing your computer beep once during startup, but before the Windows icon appears, press F8 (or the relevant key for your system).
3) Instead of Windows loading as normal, a menu should appear
4) Select the first option, to run Windows in Safe Mode.
Once in Safe Mode, please double-click
aproposfix.exe and unzip it to the desktop. Open the aproposfix folder on your desktop and run
RunThis.bat. Follow the prompts.
When the tool is finished, please reboot back into normal mode, and post a new
HijackThis log, along with the entire contents of the
log.txt file in the
aproposfix folder.