Web security.

Ouch, what a costly (in terms of time) mistake I made. I was web surfing and picked up a trojan. I should have known better when windows UAC popped up and asked permission to run "disk drive operation" a couple of times, then "Disk Defragmenter" I clicked cancel on all but the last. I know better, windows doesn't ask permission to run a scheduled disk defrag, and I don't have it scheduled to run on a Sunday morning.

I lucked out and was able to find the currupted exe, so by doing the good old 'end process' from task manager and quickly deleting the file I kept it from run initializing itself. A few trusted malware utility scans later, I'm back in business. What a pain.

I'm getting ready to do a complete wipe on this computer anyway, but I didn't want my back ups that I'm going to run first to be corrupted before I even start.

Malwarebytes was a good place to start, I may purchase the software, but they do have a good free version that is fully functional.