Every half and hour or so, an icon will pop up in the bottom righthand corner of explorer (with all my other icons), i kno its a virus as it follows with pop ups and odd fake critical system error messages, ive found the .exe in system32 but it wont let me delete it. Ive also tried runniong avg free edition, ewido,and ad-aware se personal. Nothing stops this from reoccurring. Ive also tracked it down in my processes list. Every time i end the process it restarts. My startup folder is cleaned out. Im lost from here. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Thanks for the help. Its all gone now, ewido got rid of it after a few scans and I also followed the instructions to double check. Just checking back in. Thanks alot.