...and swear

[whotheheckami]

I seem to be in a bit of a pickle laptop wise

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[alexmc]

This was roughly what I was going to suggest.

[whotheheckami]

You chaps are wonderful. Malwarebytes is chewing away as we speak and I'll look at the File Association thing after it's done its stuff

[emmavescence]

Safe mode! It works much better if you boot into safe mode first because then a lot more of the background processes aren't running and it's easier for it to remove anything.

[alexmc]

Well, I'd say it would work better if you didn't trust *anything* on that hard disk. Ideally boot from a pristine OS on an external disk - CD or USB key - but of course that isn't trivial on Windows.