A couple of things which I have disabled in the past, nothing new. I disabled all of the startup items yesterday just to be sure.

Running through a malware removal guide now and combofix.exe has found a .sys file patched with a rootkit. It's rebooting now so see if it helps.

I wish it was easier to switch between VGA and DVI on my monitor.

Oh, FFFF!

I just sorted out my grandfather's PC and now my dad just rang to say his computer isn't letting him do anything. I've just remote desktoped into it (surprised it let me change the settings to do that) and it has Win 7 Antispyware 2012 (it's from the future) blocking most things from running and being a total nuisance.

This is the second time I've had to sort out this for them now. The last one was XP Antispyware 2008 which did a very similar thing and was a total nightmare to sort out.

Grrrrrr!

I might not do that this time but if I have to sort out anything quite as painful again I might suggest it to them. The only issue I might have with it is if things do go wrong with it because I haven't done much with linux.

Currently running Malwarebytes on their PC. Had to run the command prompt as administrator to stop Win7AS2012 from blocking it and could use that to run taskmanager to disable it. I seem to have removed the main issue but now when clicking on .exe files (unless they're run as admin) I get a dialog asking what program I want to use to open this file. hopefully Malwarebytes will fix that.

Ha, not for me they don't. Shame I'm only doing it for family.

And yes, when I said one more problem I meant the .exe problem. Thanks :)

Everything was going so well then I ran combofix which sorted out the other computer. After it had finished trying to run anything brought up a message saying "illegal operation on a registry key that has been marked for deletion"

Oh bums! I have no restart/shutdown button and couldn't get to the cmd prompt to shutdown from there. Luckily a logoff and connecting again with RDP seems to have sorted everything out. Phew!