[Felix The Assassin]

So, what I understand here is: You were surfing some sites of ill repute? After surfing said sites, you felt a bit guilty? This guilt lead you to run a 'spy-scan'? This 'spy-scan' said you have been inflicted with what you typed above?

What did you do next?
Why?

Norton, nor McAfee will recognize a 'dialer' program. A dialer program is attached to your system when running 'that OS from Redmond' and you the user do not have full control over the entire rig. IE, your security is too lax. If it was tighter, you would not have had this dilemma, nor would you have made contact with the site of ill-repute either.

Never the less, hopefully you did what Hivetyrant has asked? If not, I'll send you a disk and you can convert your system and march in the penguin army! As a soldier in the penguin army you will be invulnerable to all of those nasty "other OS" attacks. They just kinda go right by, like you are not even there, however, every now and again, one will hit you and you will get a pop up that says your system is not up to date, "You must update to the "Redmond" OS before you can be attacked from ~ erm, use this site.

Anyhow, two options. Restore, or go Linux.

In the future, please be so generous to yourself and research at least 3-5 "WELL KNOWN" sites before you dink with 'that OS' in safe mode?

That file is just:
"Low risk"

"Harmless"

"Dialer to high fee inetrnet services located outside the US"

It appears it is low level, yet high rooted. That just means it attach's itself in several different locations, and if un-installed incorrectly, it my create a boot fail.

That would account for why you 'OS' disk does not recognize the HDD, it ain't there! (No boot block).

I absolutely will not give anybody any advice when the (boot block or sector) has been dinked.

I will say, I hope you the best of luck, and that you do not have anything of importance on that rig.