all the removal guides I have read thru assume I can run things and I do not know how to has I continually get the blue error screen. not sure what to do first to get to a place where I can run the programs outlined in a lot of the malware removal guides. regarding the OTL and aswMBR scan item above; since I can't get past the error screen I cannot run any scanning program to produce a log (not sure how to proceed). sorry.