Yep, had it too. Took me 4 days to get shot of it.

MS Defender (Free to verified customers) is well worth the download, too.

It's not so much Polip that does it, but all the trojans it lets through.

I'm slowing putting my disks back in...

BTW - Full format / Reinstall did not get rid of it (with no other drives attached)

Polip hides itself from virus scanners too.
Atm I'm zipping up all the clean exe's.

Silke