whew

i just manually removed a 'trojan vundo' virus from my sister's computer. norton can't handle it, and neither can ad-aware, or even my usual advanced set of anti-spyware/anti-virus tools. had to go here:

http://www.aux.uwm.edu/compop/Vundo.php

it took well over an hour. probably would have been 15 minutes had i not tried all of the above options before discovering what exactly it was called and then googled it to find a virus-specific solution.