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Programs will not run, including System Restore
So today I let my computer do the obligatory windows update that it tells me it's time for every so often. I let it reset and install. Later on, I'm minding my own business, cruising the net, not even going to any sketchy sites, when all of a sudden BOOM, AVG tells me it's found a trojan, and is quarantining it. Firefox shuts down, and the next thing I know, I can't open programs.
Here's what's happening: whenever I try to open a program from anywhere (taskbar, desktop, start menu, program files, WHEREVER), I get the prompt from the computer asking me to which program to use to open it. Yeah, you read that right, it's asking me what program to use to open programs. Uh-huh.
So I restart my computer. Nothing changes. I try to run system restore, and get the SAME THING. I even tried running it from the command line, and it told me that "net start "System Restore Service"" was an invalid name.
Does anybody have any idea what's going on here? Or even just a way I can force my computer to restore an old state?