Oh man, I would KILL for a bath right now. Oh, to have a tub! *sigh*
I'm so sorry about your computer! I had that happen to me a couple of years ago and luckily it was right before my friend gave me a computer he was getting rid of because it was an old, highly at-risk computer and it just fried.
I pretty much only use Firefox now.
Sounds like since you are able to run the spyware screener that you are on the right track and such. When it happened to me, my scanner for such things even got affected!