fake alerts

[jcr]

My McAfee scanner apparently found eight viruses. I don't remember the exact filenames but they were fakealert.gen or similar. it said it had cleaned them. a minute later i have about 20 windows opening saying i am getting a corrupt hard disk, RAM is dangerously low etc. It asked me to click through to scan and fix - but i have not done this.

I ran MBAM and it found various PUM - e.g. start menu. i deleted these but on startup still the same problems. it was also preventing me opening any programmes or updating the database of MBAm.

i am now in safe mode have managed to update the database from the link on the forum. When i go to run explorer all my files are hidden

I am running another MBAM scan now which will take a while. in the meantime here is my dds file.

Any help or ideas gratefully received.

dds.txt

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