b.exe and possibly more...please help

I am posting this as fast as i can because whatever is on my PC seems to shut it down before i can get anything accomplished. i am running XP pro. i do not know how i was infected. i woke up this morning with a ton of pop ups so i knew something was up. i went to thanksgiving dinner and when i got back, things were really going wrong. none of the icons on my desktop show up. most programs shut down when i start. hijack this closes as soon as starts(this is why i am not posting a hijack this log, because i cant). google chrome, firefox, and just bringing up a command prompt are acting the same way.

looking at active processes b.exe is running and so is....crap...now, when i press ctr alt delete it closes immediately. so i cannot tell you what else is running.

any direction of how to proceed would be great. thank you ahead of time.

john

i also want to that a new program "security tool" is running and keeps asking me to purchase it(which i wont). this "security tool" keeps telling me, "some critical system files have been altered" and that a bunch of different .exe file have been corruoted with the "lsas.blastr.keylogger" virus. hope this helps. i do not recall downloading the security tool program.

thanks

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