My computer was assaulted by this vicious beast just a couple weeks ago, and it took an eight-day battle until I finally tracked down the hidden .dll reloader file and deleted the wretched thing using c//: prompt commands in MS-DOS mode...
I traced my problem ( I hope! ) to a notepad.exe file, actually 3 of 'em, dated 06-26-04.
It's a lot easier to just reinstall everything.