Alright, well, here's a major problem I'm having.

So, I was browsing the web and screwed myself over. I must have installed something or downloaded something that I should not have.

First everything was fine and then my computer came to a crawl so I restarted. Upon boot up I noticed my background had changed to "Virus detected on your computer," yada yada yada. I right-clicked the desktop to change the background and it turns out the virus had disabled the tabs. It has also installed a screen saver that looks like a blue screen of death. Very clever virus.

That was the first problem.

I restarted and booted up safe mode and did scans with AVG, Ad-Aware, and Spybot. AVG found nothing, Ad-Aware found some clutter and cleaned it up but didn't seem to solve the problem and Spybot found nothing.

Since then, it's been getting worse. I can no longer even log into my Windows without booting into safe mode. Anytime I try browsing the web (I was trying to search for fixes) it stops me and reroutes me (keep in mind, I was browsing the web through Safe Mode and STILL got rerouted).

I have no idea what to do at this point. It's infected Safe Mode. I can't install programs (well, I can, sort of, but I'd have to use a USB stick since I can't access the normal web through the infected laptop). I cannot pay for any software since I don't have a credit card, so that option is out. If there is software please link to free versions if you could.

Thanks for whoever can help. This is really a problem. I've searched google for hours now and this seems to be the most intelligent forum from which to seek answers.

Configuration: Windows XP
Internet Explorer 7.0