Hello, it seems that the virus is only annoying and it sends itself to other people when it makes copies of it in the shared folders of many p2p programs. Also i read that it connects with a web page (don't remember the page) and can download other trojans. At least it didn't manage to do some damage in my computer, but i don't know for certain if it can do something.

To remove winupdates you need to avoid it from loading when you restart your computer or to use anti spyware software (like Microsoft Anti Spyware beta) so they detect the trojan and remove it from memory.

It seems that it is the same virus, but i don't know about your problem with active desktop, it wasn't my case.

As i said before, using Anti Spyware, the virus was detected and removed and after that i remover the directories and files created by the virus(you can check them in my other post).

It's a very annoying trojan. It took me about 2 hours to remove it (i didn't know anything about it), but at least it didn't remove any files or made another type of damage.

I hope this helps you.