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Thanks for the advice, I worked most of the night on another computer and found similar advice.
I now have a range of applications but the one that did the job was malwarebytes, cleaning up while XP was in safe mode. Took a few attempts mind you but now all is restored and working slightly better than it was.
My virus scanner (Avast) updates at least once a day, sometimes more, and it was picking up the same virus trying to be transmitted from the hijack sites yet it missed the original one on Friday so I guess it was a newish version.
I wish there was a way to hurt the *******s that sent the Trojan in the first place. I have been hearing about lots of people who have picked up similar things in the last week or so.
Anyway, all good and thank you for your time. I hope that it has gone for good, if not I know how to tidy it up.
Adam
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