Several different help sites offer several different paths to removal, which aren't helping.
I'm going to go with "nuke it 'til it glows, then shoot it in the dark". I'll be carefully consolidating all my files (which are spread out over several drives -- the plan was to have data on one drive, programs on another, and the OS on a third) -- onto a new backup drive, while checking and re-checking for the damn virus, then I'll reformat the drives and start fresh.
Damn script kiddies.