Activating the firewall has stopped my computer from restarting. However, none of the suggestions in this thread have worked for me.

The two removal tools did not work. The McAffee one searched my entire computer and found nothing. The other one kept giving an error (probably the same thing that Loony BoB complained of.)

I downloaded the patch, but I've been unable to install it successfuly (refer to earlier post).

I've tried to go through windows updates, but it gives me an error there too.

I'll keep trying stuff. This has consumed all my free time the last two nights... at least it isn't restarting right now, but I want to get this fixed.