I bet Baby got spanked for that one. lol.

OK, now that I'm done with my dumb pun, I have seen something close once:

I was working on a machine for a customer where I used to work once, and the guy had an XP Laptop where the machine could barely load Windows. Basically I had no idea what I could do to start fixing it because I didn't have admin (I called the guy myself, asked him if he knew the admin password.... He didn't of course) so I had a task of getting admin on the machine so I could fix it.

After some Straight up Wizardy (Seriously it's not like I could use an exploit or something and tell it "Install this Spybot and AVG for me now" I had to do everything by hand) and finally got it to scan.

I think you may want to do the back ups you're doing, and then, SCAN THE BACK UPS! because if you accidentally back up that, you'll be in this again.

Anyway, once you're done, don't just format and call it a day if you can, have some fun. I like to run deltree C: *.* /y so I can watch a file system die sometimes (It's relaxing), or, del C: *.* /S /Q for NT based, again, very calming to let the machine know who's the boss

Anyway, one thing I kept seeing from a similar scenario, was a very specific fake security center. I looked up the Security Centers crap online, and the ones I found weren't what this was. It was a different one.

AVG, with Heuristics enabled, finally found it, but then I couldn't get rid of it. Basically had to open DOS and do it from there, and then, run AVG, And Spybot again, and finally got it.

So the point is, the thing I found was actually some weird fake security scanner, but I couldn't find it on google at all. The ones you find on there are well known, and easy to find, but a pain. The one this thing had, was different and at one point Windows wouldn't even boot.

Anyway, again, check your back ups when you're done.