Thanks for staying with this issue.

Starting my puter in safe mode is one of the recommendations Stop Sign made to me in our exchange of emails post-disaster. It will be one thing I do in the future. As to Spybot, I deleted all of that type of software except TDS-3 when I installed Stop Sign, at their request. (In the latest attack TDS-3 was quarantained by Stop Sign) They are the complete packate: AV and anti-trojan. Stop Sign was effective in stopping the No Close virus which crippled my system earlier in the year.

In my scenario, the hacker saw that this strategy wasn't working and came up with a different attack, which proved to be highly effective. Maybe you are right that this is the work of a simple virus released into cyberspace. I really don't know. It's awfully cunning, though.

One think I noticed is that the attacks, which included the No Close virus window, usually came at the same time of day. Does this mean that the hacker is "viewing" me in real time and shooting viruses at me like bullets? If so, would it make sense to avoid that time of day to go online?

My business is with Cafepress.com.

Thanks for your input.