There have also been cases where tiny wee people get inside of your computer and create random havoc.  They are well known alcoholics and become mischievous when drunk 

Yup... I ran Malware Bytes and it found the trojans and the rootkits but when I clicked on remove the box just rebooted itself and started the process all over again.  I took it to "Marvin and Jay" (my longtime techs) just a while ago and they are sure they can get me back to square one (I'm also getting a new TerraByte drive to back up to as well).  One thing Jay said that I've never even thought of was to always untick (or tick as the case may be) the box in your Adobe reader that says allow third party programs to run inside Adobe.  That's one of the biggest culprits they see letting nasty bits getting in your innards.  Among many other things.  I guess I should count myself lucky...this is only the second major virus problem I've had since the late 80s when we started using these dern computer thingys. 

  Glad you are gettin it all sorted there youroldpal. Happened to me a few times as well. I think Adobe is evil.

yorolpal


One thing Jay said that I've never even thought of was to always untick (or tick as the case may be) the box in your Adobe reader that says allow third party programs to run inside Adobe.   

I just went through all of the settings in Adobe Reader and couldn't find this...  Do you know what subsection of preferences it's under?

Nope...but I'll be glad to ask Jay.

There have been a lot of false Adobe updates coming our way. That is undoubtably how the trojan got in. I always wait at least two weeks before letting an adobe update in. The free Adobe program is the culprits avenue of attack, as well as flash player since it's so widely used. It's a jungle out there.