Hi I am thoroughly frustrated by a virus I picked up. At first it started closing DCOM and rebooting -I had seemed to solve the DCOM problem by instructing it to restart instead of rebooting my PC- By advice I tried Malwarebytes disconnected from my modem and in safe mode. It found a bunch of trojans and a worm and it supposedly removed them. In spite of this, Google search and Yahoo search contined to redirect my queries to advertising sites, but my PC seemed to operate normally otherwise. I then ran AVG disconnected from the web -avg only does command line in safe mode so I used it in regular start up- prior to going to bed on the 3rd night, and upon waking, I noted that AVG had a list of infections it couldn't remove. My PC was locked up so bad that I couldn't even turn it off by the on off switch, so I had to shut it down using the power source switch. After rebooting Windows issued an error message stating that explorer has stopped working and needs to shut down. When I tried to access the Task Manager, I got a similar warning for that. Now I get errors that search host process and many other processes have shut down. In Safe mode, explorer and task manager load correctly. Unfortunately, my PC is all but useless in Safe mode. Foolishly I went to Microsoft's website and got useless advice to run Defender. Defender, in my memory, has never succeeded in curing a virus. With that, I was advised to try Microsoft's malware remover, unfortunately the fact that I can only boot in safe mode was ignored, Windoze' malware remover doesn't work in safe mode. Since then Malwarebytes doesn't work anymore, even after reinstallation -windoze' can't seem to find the exe file-. when I try to run the supposedly non-existent .exe file Vista simply ignores the command. Before we start, I do not have a Vista disk nor did I have a system restore date set prior to getting the virus, so please don't even go there. If I get that advice again I'm going to rip my hair out, lol. I have an old XP disk that always worked fine for me prior to Vista, but when I boot from CD it doesn't acknowledge my harddrives -I've never had that problem with the XP disk prior to installing Vista. Soooo, I once again seeked help and was told I have to make a boot disk to install over Vista. I'm in safe mode, my CD\DVD burner is useless arrrrggghhh. Why does it seem that Microsoft is making it impossible to fix this problem? Please help, Thank you