O Roff of all Knowledge - PC security question

I left the PC on, unattended, while watching MotD. When I came to switch it off, I found that I had no firewall or AV icons in my system tray, and there was a skull + crossbones in the middle of my taskbar. After a couple of exploratory clicks, I did a hard reboot, into safe mode, and ran Avast Scan, Spybot scan and Malwarebytes scan, deleting only a couple of trojans, nothing too menacing.

I then restarted again, and ran the same scans, fully updated now, in normal mode - and found nowt. There aren't any passwords stored in my computer, nor any that FF remembers for me. I'm about to do some Xmas shopping online: am I safe to continue, or is there something else I should do first?

Is it likely that someone's left a bot on my puter somewhere that's waiting for the next time I enter my card details?

Ta in advance

Suggers

Posted By: Sugbad The Bad on December 4th 2011 at 12:27:49

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O Roff of all Knowledge - PC security question (General Chat) - Sugbad The Bad, Dec 4, 12:27:49
- I can't help wondering if it's not some sort of retribution for not following your (General Chat) - Bravo win or die, Dec 4, 12:39:49
- to make doubly sure, do a system restore (General Chat) - Karnivore, Dec 4, 12:37:40
  - good idea. back in a mo. Ta Karn (n/m) (General Chat) - Sugbad The Bad, Dec 4, 12:42:20
    - no worries mate (n/m) (General Chat) - Karnivore, Dec 4, 12:42:46
      - Hang on, can't now as I have a job running. (General Chat) - Sugbad The Bad, Dec 4, 12:44:39
        
        hard to say without knowing the results of the spyware scan (General Chat) - Karnivore, Dec 4, 13:53:34

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