http://www.spywareremove.com/removeSystemTool2011.html

May be some help ...

DON'T! You don't have to do all that, MJ.

Here: http://www.wiki-security.com/downloader/SpyHunter-Installer.exe 

or:

 

 

how did he sneak that in? 

ahhh..... so that is what I have..... I have been on an old lappy for a week.....  blocks everything...including the net....gave up... 

thanks for the headsup jazzy....

See if you can download the tool, and put it on a flash drive, then transfer it to the laptop, Syd...

Hope that works for you.

I'm not a windows 7 person,  still on XP.  Can you boot from a different drive, or boot insafe mode, and then restore to an earlier point, etc.?

My system was infected with the infamous 'facebook trojan.'  After a week i finally had to reformant my hd, and reinstall windows.  I hope you get your system cleaned more easiallly than I did mine.   There is hope, many very knowledgabe people on this site who will give excellent' suggestions.

 

I'm on XP..... no safe mode... no restore points... no nuttin...

might give that a go doc... just over it at the moment........looking at getting a new PC.... 'bout time I bit the bullet and got 7..... just got a lot on at the moment and can't get my head around specs.....   then I'll just reformat this one...

Ok... normaly i dont do any commercial based posts but for everyone who isnt to much into computing and security i only can recommend you "Lavasoft AD AWARE"
there is a free version and a premium version but free is just as good.It basically prevents such things and can remove almost every trojan, backdoor jacker, worm, Keylogger and also infected rootkits.
For your problem above every OS has a safemode all you have to know what button you have to press when the computer is starting.Normaly pressing F8 during bootup should do the trick if . Note some older mainboards have a diffrent F-key for access if F8 doesnt work you may need to try F2 or F12.

hitting F8 at start-up on some newer boards will bring up the boot order menu. on other boards, F2, F10, or F12 will do the same. to get to safe mode, one needs to wait until the motherboard "info page" and list of drives passes and then hit F8. that will bring up a menu of boot options for Windows. safe Mode will be at the top of the list.

 

UPDATE!  I got rid of the dang thing, using MalWare Bytes.  I went to their forums, and found very specific instructions on how to get rid of the Trogen.  Here is the link to it: 

http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?showtopic=66064

You will not be able to download the file from the infected computer.  I downloaded it to my pc, then copied it to a flash drive and then copied that to his desktop.

I didn't have to wipe and re-install anything.  I also did not have to go into safe mode.  It took all of about 15 minutes from to start to finish.  Just be sure you follow the instructions EXACTLY as stated in the instructions.

Needles to say, My companion is a happy camper now.

Good!

I have Lavasoft AD AWARE....

and I didn't explain myself well before.... it automatically goes to the Safe Mode boot options menu page only... just, when you select it... it just boots back to the menu....constantly...

but, I don't get the pop ups to buy a removal program... so maybe I have a different prob...

nothing a sufficiently high balcony won't solve though...... 

 

Edit.... just saw your reply jazzy...page been sitting here for awhile..... will give that a go.... 

I've encountered this rascal on several occasions on various PCs. Malwarebytes was the only thing that fixed it. Note of advise. Run at least 2 full scans with it and perform a reboot to safe mode between scans.

For those that encountered the trojan, any thoughts on where you may have picked it up from? 

I've seen this thing come in from various places just out of the blue too.

Last encounter.. I saw someone playing a game on facebook and BAM! it just starts scanning your system. Once that starts you are already infested.