You're all welcome, thanks for your comments.  Everything seems to be working normally this morning so I'm assuming the little nasty has been removed from the registry as well.  I wish I knew how it got on my system in the first place.  I hadn't downloaded anything and don't open email where I don't know the sender.  I usually check the properties and then the internet.  Much of it is spam, but the kind where they're trying to get us to spend our hard-earned $$$ for their promises of great rewards.

Alyce - I thought about the misspelling and even though I didn't get that particular warning, I'm not sure with all that was happening, pop-ups coming and going, each with it's intended scare tactic, that I would have caught it anyways.  I was working really had to stay calm and remain solution oriented.
Hopefully it won't happen again, but if it does, I'll be ready(er)  :-)  Hey, maybe their spell check stopped working, just like this one on A|R  :-(

Thanks Steve - I've used AVG several years ago and always found it to be a very good program.  My internet connection is with Brighthouse cable and they have a partnership with Computer Associates which is free for their bandwidth subscribers.  It did quite well yesterday - after purging the trojan, it alerted me to another spyware on my system - one I did not choose to give up - StatCounter!  Did anyone here know StatCounter was considered spyware?  I'm curious because I dropped them once when I felt something odd about the ads I started getting.  I contacted them and they categorically stated no spyware from them!!!  Maybe it's 'cause they sorta spy on others ;-)

Hi Leesa - I also blogged this on Reliberation and a member commented that he uses several ant-spy programs at the same time.  I'm curious about potential conflicts........any thoughts!

John, I do think you can get infected by opening certain sites.  I was doing a search for a store called White House/Black Market.  I couldn't remember the name so I just put in White and Black...oh my...what I got was very unpleasant!!! This porn site that would not close down no matter how many times I hit the X button.  I was freaking out.  Had to shut down immediately, delete all cookies, history, run a scan, etc. to come back clean.  So, that's why I think we can get infected by opening certain sites.  Good luck!

Hi Jon - The weird thing about this Trojan is that the anti-virus programs I run didn't catch it.  It showed up on the Spyware check.  It was a hard one to eradicate and kinda spooky since it mimicked what you might see when you do get a virus, yet it was the virus.  There seems to be a differentiation between virus and malware and how they behave on your system. You would think if these people are so smart, they would be more productive than this and go earn a good living!  Strange bunch of people.  I went to the trouble of downloading Hijack This, ran their check, but by then the thing had been eradicated.  Thanks for stopping by...have a super weekend.