Just as a FYI, if you want you can close out this thread. It took some doing but I was finally able to get rid of the malware. What I had to do is quite interesting. I got frustrated because I saw that in the pre-hut post instructions it said that a log file was needed from Panda but after 12 hours of scanning and only getting to 36% done I decided to check out the web for any bootable programs I could use to acces the C drive without loading up the windows on my system. I found a neat little program called UBCD4Win that makes a boot cd and has some helper files along with it so what I did was used Malwarebytes in regular windows and printed the file list that listed all known files and registry items that were infected. Next i shut down the computer and then rebooted using the boot cd UBCD4Win made and once that program was running I was able to delete all files and registry entries. Once I restarted this machine back into regular mode and ran Malwarebytes it came up with no files or registry entries infected Luckily I didn't have to resort to my last option which was trying to find a MS DOS system so that I could delete each file manually. It has been awhile since I had to deal with MS DOS, I think 5.0 was the last version I used and I would have had to dredge up old memories on which commands I could use. You might want to check out UBCD4Win, it's a freeware program but I was only able to get it thru a torrent. For those people who know some things about a computer it would come in handy but I would not advise a novice to use it. Pegasus