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File Associaitons (lnk) wiped out; Restoring Win 8.1 slowed down PC


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I'm on Windows 8.1. Rarely does any malware show up in my scans. However, 3 "PUPS" showed up yesterday and, without as much as glancing at them, I just had MBAM delete them. I was asked to reboot and when I did that, all file associations (LNK) for my programs were gone. I could not open any application/program. However, I could see a few documents (PDF and Word mostly) on the desktop with the file associations intact.  (I should have tried opening them but I did not. Yeah, I know, that was dumb). Anyway, I restored my PC to a previous/safe restore point (10 days ago) which all went fine. The file associations for the programs are restored and I can open them. However, my PC is horribly slow, takes forever to start, forever to open apps, and I cannot open Task Manager, I started and restarted a few times. I shut down and restarted a few times. Finally (providentially), the system came back albeit still on the slow side. I ran Webroot SecureAnywhere and nothing shows up. I ran MBAM again. The same three threats ("Potentially Unwanted Programs") showed up. Removing these caused all the problems mentioned above and I'm stuck now. DO I remove them or keep them? What or where exactly might be the problem. Any help would be much appreciated.

 

Attached are two files - one is the log of previous run (before I deleted the threats) and the latest one (after restoring PC and running MBAM again).

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Thank you, shadowwar.  By "update" I assume you mean "update to the latest database". I did update before I scanned the first time as well as the second time (after going back to a previous Restore point). Now, my windows audio services is gone. Cannot get any sound. Network configurations are all screwed up and cannot use my VPN service.

TO RECAP:

After all my lnk associations got wiped out, I restored my PC to a previous restore point - from 10 days ago. The file/executables associations came back but the audio is gone as well as DNS settings and VPN settings.

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