HELP! I have a virus... and its WAAAY out of my league

This virus is crazy. I was just watching a vid online, then my sytem goes to whack. All of a sudden, most of my programs that run in the background all disconnect from the internet, with bad data errors. I notice a new item on my tastbar, antivirus suite. I already use AVAST, and havent downlaoded anything in the last week or so. and only trusted things aside from that. All of a sudden, this "antivirus" program starts a "sweep" showing me critical viruses. At this point im freaking out. It must be like one of those online popups that fake being a virus scanner, but this is ON MY COMPUTER!. then, google chrome starts to whack out, EVERY PAGE I GO TO redirects to http://antivirus-armature.microsoft.com/...php?r=57.6 telling me to buy an advanced copy of this antivirus suite. Now I start to try and open programs to screencap whats going on. ABOUT 80% OF ANYTHING I TRY TO OPEN gives me an error telling me that X program has been contaminated by a virus and has to be shut down. Now im getting fed up and try to open task manager, and it closes the second I open it. System restore wont open, and I have never seen a virus like this. If anybody could help me, I would love you forever.

I wouldnt mind starting over, but I dont have my vista recovery CD, and I have lots of stuff on this PC that I CANNOT LOOSE.

Try starting in safe mode and do a system restore?

Doesnt that not remove new programs? this is actually installed on my system.

I had a virus problem similar to this, except mine was more catastrophic and I could not rid my laptop of it. I just deleted my entire OS and reinstalled with a new OS (Windows Vista to Windows 7 Ultimate).

Have you attempted Safe Mode + Antivirus? This usually works. Because the computer only activates the things it needs.

If Avast is still working, schedule a boot-time scan. That's assuming the virus definitions are updated for this thing.

I once had a pesky virus like that. I uninstalled Java and it stopped working. Then I raped my computer with anti-everything until it was fixed, then reinstalled Java.

I had something like this, had to go to some windows program that was hidden and run some command and delete stuff from registry. oh and haigoogle http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-re...irus-suite

System restore'd, and now i dont see this antivirus suite anywhere, but Im scared it will come back. Any way to tell if there are remanants?

Just keep a routine scan up with updated definitions. That's pretty much all you can do.

System restore'd, and now i dont see this antivirus suite anywhere, but Im scared it will come back. Any way to tell if there are remanants?

Make sure your definitions are up-to-date. Do a boot-time scan.

Also it wouldn't hurt to try an anti-malware program such as Malwarebytes.

I wouldnt mind starting over, but I dont have my vista recovery CD, and I have lots of stuff on this PC that I CANNOT LOOSE.

You may have dealt with this virus, but if you want to make use of the Vista Recovery CD to fix your computer, you can after these instructions. But it's always best to use MalwareBytes and the rest of the programs to get everything the hell off your computer.

I had to make a Vista Recovery CD yesterday so I could log on to my cousins' old computer; it'd log you out right away upon login. I still have to clean up some viruses on it but I'm amazed the site I used's steps actually got me in.

1) Download one of these ISO-Burning Programs: CDBurnerXP, ImgBurn, or Active ISO Burner. Though I selected it somewhat randomly, I used the third one.
2) Install said program.
3) Download this file. It is the ISO file for the Vista Recovery Disc. Do not unzip it from the folder or you'll screw it all up.
4) Make sure you have a CD-R, DVD-R, or DVD+R disc in your tower; I used a CD-R. With assistance of the ISO-Burning Programs linked above, burn the ISO file downloaded above TO the CD. Open the program, locate the file and bam.

...You now will have a Vista Recovery Disc. Make sure your computer will boot to the CD first when you need to use it. On my cousins' old computer I had to disable the second, third, and fourth boot options just to get a 5-second window to push a key to boot to the CD. >_> Stupid EMachines...