http://C:\Users\Ally\Desktop\virus1
Hello
Last night while on the internet I ran into a website that Avast! told me contained malware on it, so I followed it’s advice and clicked “Back to Safety.” Soon after this happened Avast! pop ups continued to tell me that Malicious URL’s that were targeting the System 32’s “svchost” and a lovely bright “oh so serious” application came up (one without a Close Cross in the corner I might add) began telling me I had over 23 viruses and should press the big button that would get rid of them for me. The application was called Mal-Doctor or something, but it wasn’t Malware-Doctor because I’ve never installed that, so I closed it with task manager. Soon after I had the BSOD, which said something about a memory dump before the computer suddenly restarted.
Once I was back in I immediately ran a full scan with Avast!, Ad-Aware, and Windows Defender. After they completed it told me that they did find something and I hit the delete button as it recommended. I thought all was now well, but after another warning of malicious URL, all the icons on my desktop flickered, and the appearance of the windows changed, from the standard appearance of Vista (key example are the buttons in the corner which are elongated and highlight when moused over) to something which looked more like Windows 99. I shut the computer down and restarted, and it was back to the Vista look.
I thought that the URL would mean something to do with the browser I had used when the problem first arose (Google Chrome) so I started it up…but it didn’t. Chrome was completely unresponsive and loaded nothing. I uninstalled, downloaded it again with Firefox, and still it loaded nothing. I tried using CCleaner to uninstall again, and when I Ran the Cleaner (Habit) it told me that i have to shut down Google Chrome if i want the cache to be cleared. Okay…but Google chrome wasn’t running at the time. I started it again, shut it down with Task Manager, and still it told me Google Chrome is running.
Now I have just come back from leaving it scanning for 4 hours (With Malware bytes included this time) and now the appearance is like that in the screenshot, (that is if it’s loaded, but if not it looks more akin to Windows 93 than Vista.)
I’m now fairly annoyed, and in all honesty quite scared. Apologies if the description isn’t very clear, it’s hard to describe.
Can anybody help me?
Many thanks in advance.