It directed me to another page with a link to update Adobe Flash that resulted in uploading a virus to my machine.

So, when's your sweet 16 party, Lisa?

I used Microsoft's malware tool and it seemed to work.....

http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.aspx 

... it's easy to remove if you know how to use REGEDIT ...

... let me know if you need help ...

Problem IS that the names this thing hides under keep changing.

I deleted about eight registry keys that were identified by other users and the thing still held on.

The microsoft tool got it out in a snap.