OK - so McAffee did its usual fine job of finding exactly nothing. The trojan was even smart enough to jack up the Group permissions so that anybody or any group with any kind of administrator rights was stopped from executing them.

I actually went file-by-file through the 'C' drive and hacked out anything that had yesterday's date listed and poked through the registry. It still booted fine and ran with no signs of any malicious code - except for the Admin permissions being trashed. So, I popped the XP setup disk in and ran it with the 'Repair' option. Apparently Windows was so jacked up now that it performed a re-install... but decided to take pity on me and not wipe out all of the accounts and settings.

Once back up to the desktop, I was able to finally run the Trojan Remover I d/l's last night and it couldn't find anything either. Symantec AV (government version) gave the 'all-clear' as well. Who knows what else is messed up - but again... not my machine.

If it's too jacked up even after all that, I guess a flush and reinstall is in order.

Whatever.