[mitchntx]

Any one ever get this cock-sucker of a virus?

I've been fighting this thing for over a week.

So far the best results have been unplugging the network connection and doing deep scans with

Hitman Pro
Ad-Aware
Spybot
Spyware Dr.
Enterprise Nortons
ESET NOD32

The problem I'm having is that the HD activity goes berzerk at boot, progressively slowing the system till it crashes about 15 minutes later. So as you can surmize, I'm having to do these deep scans in small chunks.

Frustrating ...

Any one have any other ideas?

[C3SS]

Have you tried MalwareBytes Anti-Malware yet? It clears up my inlaws' computer nearly every time.

http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam-download.php

[mitchntx]

Have you tried MalwareBytes Anti-Malware yet? It clears up my inlaws' computer nearly every time.

http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam-download.php

No, I haven't.

I have 3 malware programs now. I have seen where one mw's footprint will trigger another's scan.

But my issue is I can't get the system to stay running long enough to complete a scan.

While I thought my problem was a virus (and it was), I am seeing symptoms of a video card mis-handling memory. As the system locks, I see ghosts of windows I'm trying to close in the window directly behind it. Classic video card memory issue.

I have uninstalled all the video card hardware and software components, including editing the registry and physically pulling the card. I then installed the latest driver and controller set available from NVidia.

No help.

So, I'm trying to track down an NVidia PCI-E card I can throw in there just to see if its actually hardware related or not.