durtydurty Posted February 10, 2010 Report Share Posted February 10, 2010 Had a virus on my lappy called Vista anti virus or internet security. Very real looking scan commences and finds lots of bad stuff and gets you to pay for it and robs you I'm guessing. Remove Vista Antivirus 2008 ( Vista Antivirus 2008 Removal Instructions ) | RemoveOnline.com Did a couple of things that were recommended on various websites and deleted some reg keys, which Ive done before with no problems. Now.....this time all my icons on my desktop wont run and comes up with a set association warning, tried setting associations to no avail. If you right click the icon and run as admin its runs fine. Tried system restore but the button doesn't want to work! Help, any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burble Posted February 10, 2010 Report Share Posted February 10, 2010 Download and install MalwareBytes and scan your computer, that should remove it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sponge Posted February 11, 2010 Report Share Posted February 11, 2010 Do you have recovery discs and backups? I think I'd be formatting at this stage. I've never been 100% happy with recovery tools and anti-spyware/AV scans when stuff like this happens. Thankfully, it's only been 2 or 3 times over many years. But I usually just go with the 100% safe option of wiping and reinstalling the OS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
durtydurty Posted February 11, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2010 Thanks for the advice so far chaps. In the end I had a fiddle and went into system restore from the boot screen and left it to do its thing and not only does my machine run quicker but the virus has gone also. I guess the virus was stopping the system restore from working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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