Then on March 4th of this year, I was searching for cursive pages of all things and I opened one and immediately got a Trojan message. It had the microsoft symbol on it and mentioned several things that had already been infected. The virus is called Internet Security Essentials and of course they want me to purchase their anti-virus program to get rid of it. Initially, I tried to run an AVG scan, which it would not let me do. So I tried to go directly to AVG using the toolbar and attempted to update it to the newest one. It appeared to be working, but then gave me an error message. Then AVG disappeared from my computer. The icon on my desktop, and everything! I ran several searches for it and it wasn't there. Anytime I tried to use a search engine it would give me this strange error message which basically told me that my computer was infected by a virus and that I should download one of 4 programs to delete it. I am no expert, but the names seemed bogus. Like instead of Hijackthis, they had added an exclamation point, and freeAVG instead of AVG free was one of the others I remember. I can directly get to a website by typing in it's name when I am in safe networking mode, but cannot use a search engine. My brother came over and messed with it for hours. He discovered that this bugger would recharge every time we turned the computer back on. It kept multiplying itself, until he finally changed the name of it to make it a picture file. It was still there, but unable to multiply as far as we could tell. We were able to delete smaller things associated with it, and deleted everything from that day in fact. But we were given an error message when we would try to delete the actual program, which before we changed it's name had an icon that looked kind of like a bird. It also had an icon on my desktop that looked like a purple ball. We took the computer back in time to the 3rd of march, the day before the infection, but the stubborn bugger was still there. Control Alt delete will not work, neither will putting it into a zipped folder. When we try to delete it, it basically tells us it's locked and that we are not authorized to delete this file. I don't know if I gave you enough info, and I am so bad at computerese that I'm embarrassed. I attached the OTL log.
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