nasty Trojan horse - virtumonde - removal?

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A few days ago, my laptop got infected with one of the most nasty infections I've ever encountered, and apparently it's called virtumonde.

The main problem appears to be a dll file that regenerates, or if you use SpyBot to "fix" it, your computer just crashes.

The computer runs painfully slow, has pop-ups, gets new shareware downloaded, and somehow won't even be allowed to run basic web searches on yahoo or google.

This virtumonde has been around a while, but my suspicion this is a fairly new version.

Does anyone know either a) a simple fix (looking less and less likely), or b) the best set of instructions out there on how to get this thing off?
 
How to remove it:

The Link

I can't access the site from work anymore
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, but majorgeeks.com would also probably have a solution. Go to the support forums.
 
That thing is a PITA to remove. If you're dead set on doing so here is a link so you can see what your up against:
The Link


A reformat and re-install all your apps. may be the easiest.
 
This is probably a stupid question, but what is the easiest way to reformat? (obviously, I'll back up all of my docs first).
 
just boot from the windows install cd. the first setup screen will show all your partitions. delete the partitions so your just left with "Unpartitioned Space". Then select that and choose format in NTFS or something like that.
 
I went to majorgeeks.com and used a very lengthy but thorough clean-up process, and that seemed to take care of it. Thanks everyone.
 
You were lucky. Virtumonde pretty much destroyed the Windows install of a computer here at work. Had to reformat.
 
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