The Malwarebytes anti-malware program removed the SWP 2009 annoyance on the first scan, !!thank you!! for posting that advice. After the Malware scan was complete, on the list of "bugs" found, one of the problem files was titled "fake alert" or something like that, so perhaps that was it. It was listed in the Windows folder.
The problem is fixed with that solution, now I'm just sharing these notes just for documentation:
When I first got the virus and realized my usual browser,IE, could not get to any other web page than the fake anti-spyware service page, I launched Firefox and could get to normal web sites no problem... I didn't take any action to download anti-malware and instead decided to restart computer thinking maybe I could exist on Firefox alone. WRONG! After reboot, Firefox too went to a "jump page" which was the same fake anti-spyware page. I have Netscape and Opera browsers as well, Netscape would not start and Opera jumped to the fake page.
I had to download Malwarebytes program from a separate computer, put it on my flash drive, and then unload it onto the infected computer as the virus ensured no web surfing was possible on the infected computer. That worked. (I have XP on a Dell made in 2002 and can NOT afford to upgrade these days if the computer were to die!)
If you found this forum after getting the problem on your own computer then obviously you have access to the internet, probably on a different computer than the infected one. Try your flash drive to get Malwarebytes over to the sick computer asap. LEsson learned, have more than one browser on your computer in case a virus hijacks your default browser, and if so, don't monkey around, find a fix and download it before your back up browser gets infected too. Now mine doesn't get those annoying popups or jump pages... until the next time I make another fatal click...
John Roxborough PA