Start menu programs missing after clearing Trojan.gen.2

[butchinbeijing]

Hello: Have the same problem as reported by cw22 in March this year. After Norton cleaned the trojan, or maybe before, most all programs are missing from my Start menu. Running Windows 7 64 bit. Read all the instructions in the thread from Catherine, but per the instructions have started a new thread. Any help would be appreciated.

Did run before the Norton scan Superantispyware and Malwarbytes, both of which found and cleaned viruses. Sorry, don't know which ones. Also, for several months the computer has been real slow to respond, the hard drive spins continuously and the task manager shows usage always at 100%. Have been very unsuccesful in find the problems.

Thanks in advance to any help offered.

Bud

[butchinbeijing]

Oh, now a new issue has popped up. All icons have disappeared from the desktop with the exception of Libraries, Computer, Network Control Panel, and most have disappeared from the short cut bar, and all programs have disappeared from the start menu. The search bar still works and I can open the cmd window.. So, I guess this issue is serious, right?

[RJGoodhouse]

After Spending this much time trying to fix it, seems it would have saved time to restore from backup or just rebuild with a clean install

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