A recent post at Bleepingcomputer jogged my memory about something.
Something that I had tried to figure out was how suddenly this happened and the PC seemed to be working ok.
At one point you speculated that this may have been the left over result of a prior infection of some kind.
I really could not buy that at the time as I could not remember being infected with anything on here. That was not quite true.
About a week before all this took place I did go to a Secunia web site to look at their PSI tool. However It was a redirect to a malicious site pretending to be Secunia. I was suspicious so I did not click on anything but that really does not mean much these days. Shortly a little later Superantispyware alerted that it had stopped the installation of 15 spyware files and quarantined them. Maybe #16 got thru. The time frame coinsides pretty closely. So I may have had an infection after all.
