Bill,

>All this stuff sounds good, but it's over my head. I don't know what HOSTS entries are.

On my WinXP box the file is C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

there should be a lmhosts.sam file in that folder, if there is no hosts file, copy lmhosts.sam and rename it hosts then open it in notepad. There are additional instructions in the file.

>I don't know how to use Regit.

Make sure you do a good back up, because you can really mess things up if you go deleting the wrong entries in there.

> I don't know how to get into my browser cache (I'm using FoxFire).

I can't tell you where to find it for that browser.

>I'm a fast learner, but can you point me to places where I can learn this stuff?

Some of the websites like McAfee and Symantec display manual removal procedures for some of the viruses that's a good place to read.