Stupid Virus inveters

Ok so I know Im not completely computer illeterate but come on!! I got a message from my Norton Antivirus program at about 9:45 last night telling me that I had a trojan on my computer. Some funky thing named Trojan Bris vA.....( who names these things? )Apparantly it came from a media file, ( I blame Adam and his music and movie obscession ) Anyway I did a removal on my Norton and to my dismay Norton was unable to remove the virus. Apparantly I needed to download a removal tool, and do it manually. Ok how hard can that be right? WRONG!!! Ugh another question I have who decides how these programs work? Ok I can do this I said to myself. I went into Norton page and clicked on the download tool this whole looong page pulls up and I do mean long telling me that I need to run this removal in safe mode. ???? Yes I know what safe mode is however Im just wondering to myself why? So I switched to safe mode and I tried to re-access the Norton page I had..Yeah no can do. UGH by now its 10:30 pm and Im frustrated beyond repair. No Norton repair tool is going to help me. I now needed a safe mode. So I restarted in normal mode and went to bed saying forget it. However it took me till 1 to fall asleep wondering what this nasty little bugger was doing to my computer. What kind of damage it might be inflicting. Then Im awake at 6 am with Trojan Bris vA back on my mind. I get back on the computer and pull up Norton again and re read everything I couldnt figure out last night. What they dont tell you is you need to download the program first and save it to your desk top then restart in safe mode and run the removal tool. Oh theres alot more they told me and didnt tell me that was inaccurate but Ill save you all the details suffice to say I have a clean computer now and Trojan Bris vA is all but a bad memory. One I hope to quit seething over soon. Honestly I think these people who come up with these stupid viruses need to be drug out into the street and I dont humilated at the very least. Do they have nothing better to do then mess with peoples computers how pathetic do you have to be. The worst is their handy work preys on people like me who arent totally computer illeterate yet Im not a computer genius. So Im wondering I dont have alot to share on my computer I mean if they steal my passwords they arent going to get much. Maybe access to my facebook or my my space.....Or my blog...so in closing if they are so smart with computers Im guessing they dont need my blog they can create their own..SOOOOOOOO they really arent that smart then are they?