Hello everyone, Upon downloading a file online today from a place I thought was safe, I ended up with a popup window asking me to install something with the .exe. I of course clicked no. AVG then detected a virus with an exe extension that I removed. Once I was done, I tried loading firefox from my toolbar and I was asked to open it with a list of programs. Similar to when you try and open a file and want to open it with say word or notepad, except this window is not the windows one. It's bigger. I tried another file and got the same Open with window. Everything I tried to open, I get this window. I cannot load anything. Here's what I tried. -Restore point. Doesn't work, I'm asked to open with. -HJT, Mbam, AVG. Doesn't work. I'm asked to open with. -Can't run MBAM from a CD, deny work. Open with window is what appears. -Safe mode doesn't work. Same thing. Open with is what's popping up. In the list of things I can use (just giving an example) is Paint. I loaded paint on my laptop, and I'm still getting an open as option. Open paint with paint? I'm not gonna click anything on that open with window. What else can I do? I'm stuck. I'm posting this from my iPhone. Thank you very much for your help.
There are lots of posts about this problem - some are not sure that it is in fact a virus. http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/questions/101-264496
Have you tried accessing the restore point from the command prompt in Safe Mode. For XP, it's: %systemroot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe For Windows 7 it's just: rstrui.exe
No because I didn't know how to do it. I however tried the option mentioned here: http://www.computing.net/answers/security/open-with-virus/29156.html And it worked. According to what I read, it was caused by the deletion of a virus I got when I downloaded the file. Thank you for your help Attar.
