1 hour 2 minutes...
removed 4 viruses...
removed 8 entries found by hijack this..
proceeded to boot in safe mode...
adaware (ran it first) found 120 something registry keys and values...
spybot finished it off with another 30....
Manually deleted 6 directories.. newdotnet, bargainbuddy, and a few others that I don't recall the names of a the moment.
allll fixed.
Still irritated though.
Oh, and it was kazaa lite... I kept the install file for it since it's a pain in the neck to find on google any more.. He knew enough to search for it, install it. What he needed was a key to register software that I have. He knew he could just get any old key from the internet, rather than search for the key in my computer room... (I'd probably have a hard time finding it myself - we're all packed up and ready to move... boxes and boxes of stuff.)
And, he ran a program that generates keys... (oh nooooooo!!!)
that installed a virus that downloads the malware.
Oh well. Only lost an hour of my time (and 2 minutes)