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@ Paranoid,
Actually I was well on my way to becoming a malware expert. I passed boot camp at spywareifoforum.com and helped out with hijackthis logs on a few different anti-malware forums for a quite some time. I forget what my achieved rank was but I wasn’t far from expert status at the time. Some life changing events and uprooting to another state kept me from pursuing it further. Since then I have repaired, cleaned and set up security on dozens of computers of family, friends, neighbors etc. So I am more than qualified to offer advice on this subject. Nothing I suggested would be harmful to the OP’s computer. I strongly suggest an online virus scan that runs independent of the OP’s operating system. Since you are not a moderator or a malware expert yourself I suggest you offer advice where you can help rather than dispensing your opinion of me.