Thanks to help here, I was able to recover from a Anitmalware Doctor issue. Thanks for that.
Above and beyond the fix, I'm snooping around my computer looking for any entrails left behind. Since I know the exact date and time things went bad, I've searched "*" specifying the date. I was able to find more files, like an uninstaller for the malware in my "start menu\programs" folder. I deleted it and no problems found after doing so.
There are other files created at the same time, some of them are unknown in purpose. I'd like to disable these files one at a time, reboot and see the effects, rather then deleting them.
Is there a way to disable a file's access without deleting it?
Thanks for your time.