I’m literally exhausted and flat out shocked at how stubborn these viruses are, I’m gonna go get some sleep and check back later. It’s now spreading to other areas of the hdd that it didn’t goto b4 so it’s best that I go now to stop the bleeding. Btw, if it helps, I cleared out all the registry stuff in the startup, followed all the instructions on your link, and even manually deleted left other junk files (exes) from the folders that were giving me problems all in safe mode. I also ran avast’s scheduled boot scan (b4 windows load up), so I’m at a complete loss as this is the 2nd time i’ve done this except I got into the “System Volume Information” folder this time and deleted most files cept the dlls from the past few days. I also changed my hosts like you suggested the 2nd time round. Again thanks in advance for anything you can do to help. I hope this isn’t something that’ll spread too quickly b4 i can fully remove it or crash my pc. :frowning: