Ok, I've been working on this for several hours now and I'm at a wall. This morning TrendMicro reported it had blocked two malicious threats. I didn't notice the names, but after x-ing out of the notification window I found that all my icons were dead. That is to say, I could not start a single program. In explorer, all my .exe files were also blocked from opening by the error "This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action...". I could not open the CMD prompt or run regedit. Finally, I was able to launch CMD by going to the task manager and holding down ctrl + new task (possibly a backdoor command the virus overlooked??). That let me into Regedit, where I searched out the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT>Shell>Open>Command for .exe and exefile and changed the properties to "%1" %*. This solved the file allocation problem and allowed all my programs to start opening again. After restarting, I've decided that the effects of the virus are still present. ALL my .exe files are categorized as NJi files now. In the file properties of all my executables, the file type says "NJi (.exe file)". Also, when I right click the file, the first two options would normally be Open or Open With. Open with is missing, and now there are two identical Open commands. The only desciption I can find online of a NJi file is that it runs with Nero, which I've never had installed. Though all the programs do open now, I just downloaded Malwarebytes (for the first time) and that one file will not launch and install. I also changed the extension to .com with the same result. Error ShellExecuteEX failed; code 1155. No application is associated with the specified file for this operation. I haven't found any other NJi/exe files that won't launch their respective programs. I'm currentlty running a full scan with TrendMicro, though a quickscan uncovered nothing. Looking back at my weekly full scans, a spike in blocked malware and viruses has appeared from 12.28 through today, with a very low count previous (only 3 web threats blocked befiore 12.28). The forum post I followed up till this point is below: http://social.techne...f5-89021ab5fa0e Any information or advice would be greatly appreciated. I fear my computer may be taken over again soon if I don't find the root problem Attach.txt DDS.txt
