DP's Battle With The Virus - The Story
It was a Trojan which had infected one of the main drivers that the system needs to remain stable upon start-up. Everytime I logged on a bunch of pop-ups would appear and the Anti-Virus would go crazy. It'd be fine for 2 minutes then go to the blue screen and crash.
So I had to re-boot the computer in Safe Mode which effectively runs the computer with the bare minimum resources that it needs. Because everything else was disabled, the virus couldn't activate so I was able to do a System Restore and effectively go back in time with the computer to before the virus came along.
After that, I was able to log on normally but there were still a few issues and I could tell that the virus was still there. So I proceeded to run the Anti-Virus (McAfee) however it kept turning itself off everytime I tried to run it (the virus was probably doing that.)
So I checked for any updates with the Anti-Virus and installed the new one. This allowed the scanner to stay on and let it do its business. I ran a complete full scan of the computer and 4 hours later the virus was gone. Let's hope that's the end of it and I don't get any more nasty surprises.