OT- ZeroAccess rootkit trojan: Anyone with experience/advice on removing?

I used to fix mine, but I don't really remember how to, there are message boards that can help you step by step, I used forospyware.com but is in spanish.

There are tools like antimalwarebytes wich help a lot and some other that gives you the root directory, I remember one called bazooka, but it was when I had a pentium 4 computer with Windows xp so maybe that's too old now, you had to write down the directions and restart the computer in safe mode, then erase those files and directories, some needed additional software like killbox to be able to delate the files. Some other software like edowe (I think it was called that) was usefull to scan the computer and get the logs, people in those message boards read the logs and tell you what to erase or so, but after half a day I was able to remove red sheriff, a really nasty spyware very hard to remove as far as I know, perhaps backing up everything and reinstalling windows would be easier.

Download a USB Virus scanner such as Kaspersky to a USB drive, off another computer. Then boot up in safe mode, run the scanner, and hope that the virus is removed. 

Talk about nuking above, but that's a last resort option in my opinion. 

Also, this laptop is an utter piece of junk, the fan is actually blaring right now and making some irritating noise. I heard the ultrabooks are pretty nice, but they're pretty expensive compared to the other laptops I'm looking at in Newegg. It's about the same age as the OP's laptop, so I could use a new laptop that actually runs videos and surfs the internet without freezing!