I really HATE these buggers, these malwares that fake being anti-spyware. Lesson: never download anything that hasn't been cleared at CNET.
I never told you guys--2 weeks ago, I FINALLY had my computer all cleaned up and running as I wanted it after the Google redirect virus. The next night, I came home, and I found that Mrs. Godot had done a cold shut-down. I tried to restart--no good. All kinds of rigamarole--weird screens, you name it. Couldn't restart from last known good startup, couldn't do a system resore to an erlier date, or rather, I could, but it didn't help...
Long story short, I couldn't even reformat the hard disk (and I was willing to), not even from a command prompt. Kept getting a message about missing volume information and possible corruption. I think so much shutting down, restarting, installing and uninstalling, and registry fixes in one month was just too much for the disk, which was 4 years old anyway. So I lost all my data, but really didn't care much; all my important files were on flash drives. Took it in and yes, it definitely needed a new hard disk. Took the opportunity to get some more RAM. A friend at the office let me have the Win 7 disk and Office 2007, so at least I didn't have to pay for the software (I'd been running Vista, and they didn't give me a disk when I bought the laptop years ago). If I'd had to do that, it wouldn't have been worth the fixc and I'd have bought a new laptop.
Chris, I now use Mbam, Avast, Comodo firewall, Win Patrol Plus, and Web of Trust, on top of whatever security Win 7 is running. Oh, and some program they recommended at Geekstogo that protects the Hosts file, forgot the name. Is there anything else you'd recommend?