Difficulty:  Remembering your anniversary.
Estimated Cost: Approximately 12 dollars (if you do it the easy way).  Fixing it yourself: Still Priceless.
Required Patience: Between 7 and 10.
Summary: This method involves removing the (boot) drive from the infected machine, and connecting it to a non-infected machine, and then using the virus scanner on that machine to remove the virus from the infected hard drive, and then replacing the hard drive back into the original machine.  This method is usually 99 percent effective but if system files are infected, the system may not be boot-able when you finish.  I will add a guide for that in the future.

Note: This method REQUIRES a second non infected PC.  If the infected pc is a laptop then it will have to be disassembled.  You may consider my virus removal method 3 (antivirus boot cd) if you are not ready to take your laptop apart.  Taking apart 2 desktops is usually pretty easy and straight forward, so I like this method personally if I can.

Tools: Screwdriver (large or small depending on weather the infected pc is a desktop or laptop)
Anti-static strap: (Highly recommended, becauseif you esd your board, you won’t even know it until you try to boot the machine and it does nothing, then you will cry)
A hard drive (ide, sata, or eide) to usb connector/adapter.  This is not necessary if both machines (infected and non-infected) are both PC’s.  It also makes life real easy, as you only need to take apart the infected machine, and you can plug the infected hard drive into the other computer without having to turn it off.  1 of these will run you between 10 and 20 bucks and they usually can connect all 3 types of drive (not at once).  If the infected pc is a laptop, and you do not have an eide to ide cable, then you will need the adapter.  If the non-infected pc is a laptop, then you will need the adapter.  You are looking for something along these lines: http://www.google.com/products?q=hard+drive+to+usb+adapter&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=gIPjSvOZBojosQO238mwBA&sa=X&oi=product_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CCYQrQQwAw
But I recommend you go to your nearest electronics outlet (Fry’s electronics, etc…) and pick 1 up. I recommend the cheap one. I paid 12 bucks (usd) for the one I have and it works great.

Next: Pull the hard drive out.