My run in with the virus was like that. Even tho I did stop and end task it. I got infected, but luckily it couldn't do much damage. Cleaned up most of it before a reboot so it didn't do anything. Well, it did try to hijack my wallpaper, which was stopped promptly. One of the big things about the internet browser deal is that it's actually a redirect related to your DNS server. I deleted that entry and flush/refresed my IP to fix it. AV XP2k8 has some fun work arounds, but nothing like a regedit, spybot, AVG 7.5, Hijackthis, and malwarebytes to fix the problem. I do owe GAF a lot for alerting me to this though. There was a topic on this matter that someone had earlier this year that gave me the heads up on stopping the nasty bugger before it really did some damage.
