From: "Li'l Abner" <blvstk@dogpatch.com>

> This is a Windows 7 laptop. It boots up to a momentary "Safe Boot" screen
> which soon goes away and is replaced by "Windows Stable Work".
> Control-Alt-Delete + Start Task Manager pops something up which goes away
> before you can read it and then it goes bck to the main screen which still
> has Windows Stable Work on it. If you let it scan and then tell it to Fix
> Errors, then you finally get to the point where you can close it and the
> Windows Desktop. Most anything you try to do pops up a "Warning" with the
> name of an infection and a choice to Deny or Enable Protection. Of course I
> didn't pursue this. That can be closed with Alt-F4. Regedit won't run. A
> reg file won't run. Batch files won't run. They're all intercepted by that
> warning popup. I can open My Computer and browse everything on the drive
> and on my thumb drive. A text file will open in notepad. Pictures will
> open. Renaming exe to com doesn't cut it either. And I get the same exact
> results in Safe Mode. If it were XP, I could probably log in to the
> Administrator account and get around it. But Windows 7 doesn't have an
> Administrator account.
>
> What do I do now?
>
> Of course, the restore to factory option is there, but as before I'd like
> to avoid that if possible.
>

Have you tried removing the hard disk from the affected computer and placing on a
surrogate computer ?

Then you can scan the affected hard disk and/or manually cleanout TEMP folders, EXE files
that don't belong in %appdata%, etc....



--
Dave
Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp