Not able to get rid of PUM.Hijack.Regedit....Regedit disabled! Pls Help!

[shwets]

Hi,

I recently used a pen drive on my machine and started receiving an error after I booted the next time round. The error stated "Windows cannot find Regsvr.exe. Make sure.....". I immediately realized my machine is infected and ran Malwarebytes. The tool picked up some 3-4 viruses and I deleted the same and was then prompted to reboot. I did the same however I continued receiving this error and the same 2 viruses figured in the scan on each occasion. One was 'PUM.Hijack.Regedit' and the other was something related to Hijack Shell.

I have searched a lot on the internet, however most fixes stated have not solved my problem. I am unable to open Regedit. However when I attempt to open through 'Safe Mode', Regedit opens. Hence I used one of the instructions stated on one of the forums which directed deletion of 'Regsvr.exe' from a Regustry entry which has 'Explorer.exe Regsvr.exe'. This was done in "Safe Mode" and when I rebooted the error message stopped. However when I ran Malwarebytes again, it still detected PUM.Hijack.Regedit. The other virus has disappeared from the list now since I have made that Registry change in Safe Mode. I am not facing any other issues such as slow computer or inability to open TaskManager or any other problem. What is strange is that the other anti-virus tools I have on my machine - AVG and McAfee, are not able to detect this virus. Though I am not having any direct problems as of now, knowing that I have a virus on my machine makes me uncomfortable. Hence please help me in sorting this out. I am attaching the log of the last scan that I had run on my machine using Malwarebytes.

Appreciate your help.

Thanks

mbam-log-2012-09-11 (08-54-29).txt

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