@dr_lew: Thanks for the advice....I am now posting from my previously infected PC. Best Buys wanted $200 for what you and other Freepers helped me do in about an hour. But I did kind of back into the “fix”. Like you I put the flash drive with the downloaded program in before I started the “safe mode” start-up. Then I couldn’t get out of “safe-mode” without going through the “restore” process. I restored to a date prior to the trojan/virus showing up and everything is now fine. I guess there’s more than one way to “skin a rabbit”. Since I am pretty computer/software illiterate I am pretty darn proud of myself today. Thanks again for starting this thread.
“I restored to a date prior to the trojan/virus showing up and everything is now fine.”
Very fortunate, most virus disable the sys restore functionality, even in safe mode.