This article helped me immensely, and I thank those guys a lot.  http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-security-tool.  I followed their steps, but had to try several times to successfully run a recommended batch file designed to kill all malicious processes.  Without successfully completing this, you will never rid yourself of the virus.

I finally got through it, and the subsequent steps were easy to complete.  Note that it takes 2-3 hours to run an app designed to identify all malicious files on your hardrive.  Once the task is done, you simply click a button to delete them and viola, you are clean again!

I want to add this link to Malwarebytes, the malware detection and removal software I now run on my computers.  It is extremely cheap, great at what it does, and does not act like a virus itself, like some other malware detection and removal products.