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I had basicly the same thing (browser hijacker) and eventually it messed up my boot sector so I had to do a sys recover to the default state my puter was at purchase via the back up disks I made.
If you have good current backups you will be back and running 90% in a (long) day. And then maybe 5 more days (not full time) of configuring and reinstalling.
Good things:
1. Virus gone.
2. You start with a nice defragged hd.
3. This time you can skip installing the software that was junky or hardly used.
4. You end up with a better computer.
Basicly it was almost worth it to me.
Also in the future when using ie, I would not put any site in trusted. Use the default ie settings and adjust just a couple of settings for the internet and local settings and 99% of sites will work.
So it sucks but you do get something out of the recovery.
Also I would do a sys recovery of the back up disks rather than a reformat. Seems progs install better and some settings are remebered. (don't ask me how, but on virtually all progs I only needed to enter the reg info, all settings were in tact on most all progs which really helps. This is on vista home.) Plus it only recovers the C drive so other drives don't need be touched.
I'm no expert but just trying to say it is not as bad as it seems and you will come out the other side in a week tops with a better, cleaner running puter.
Good luck man.
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