Virus problem - MBAM not working

[Jules]

A couple days ago, I had been getting some popups from something called Advanced Virus Remover. I suspected that something had gotten into my computer so I planned to scan it the next day. However, when I tried turning on my computer, all I got was a picture of my wallpaper. I couldn't see any icons or the taskbar, so I turned off the computer and started it in safe mode. From here I scanned using Avast and Spyware Doctor; nothing came up.

Meanwhile on my laptop I found a guide online that suggested I use MBAM to scan for this specific malware. Still in safe mode, I tried running both quick and full scans. MBAM would scan for maybe a few seconds, but then a dialog box would pop up reading "Runtime error 5: invalid procedure call or argument" and the whole program would close. I thought that maybe something was wrong with my copy of the file so I tried loading it onto a flash drive and scanning from there. Same result.

I've also tried doing all of this in debugging mode as well; no luck. Today I scanned the entire computer with AVG. The whole thing took about 8 hours and it still didn't detect the virus.

I'm just looking for any help in getting rid of this thing. Thank you in advance.

[prairie dog]

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