It was not Rfactor central it was the site hosting the 1.01 version, not the French site but the one with the orange banners and the premium pay option. I have seen this before with sites like that where you watch an ad then it tries to jack you up with a virus and offer to sell you a virus protection software at the same time. Which is bullshit anyway. Not this time. But I don't know I can just tell you what and when it happened. It could have been any number of things unrelated.
Disables Access to the Task Manager built into Windows
Adds a Registry Key (RUN) to auto start Programs on system start up
Disables the built in Windows File Protection System
Another run of the virus and security suite is not finding the virus in safemode. In normal mode I am locked out of the task manager with a message that says the Administrator has taken away my privleges to use the task manager. Given that I think I will just reformat by installing XP from scratch. Maybe I will spend the rest of the weekend getting what data I can on DVD disks then reformatting on monday. It looks like I am royally screwed. Even though the virus checker stopped some things there was too much to stop at once and somethings got through and judging by the list of things it can do it could get worse later.
That computer was unplugged to prevent further harm to it or others. I am going to just reinstall everything which will take... who knows how long.