Windows 7 is in safe mode, even though it's using normal startup.

We started out tonight by removing the TrendNet driver that was installed the night before and uninstalled
Norton uninstalled using the Norton removal tool.

At this point Windows appeared to still have a network connection. So we rebooted and when the system came back up we were by all appearances functional.

The one remaining issue appeared to be Chrome. When we opened chrome the color quality would significantly degrade for the display. As well, we couldn't use the menu or load any webpages. The odd thing was the chrome icon had the UAC shield in the lower right corner.

I finally had him open the properties for chrome and after digging around found that the compatibility mode was set for windows xp sp3 and it was set to run in 256 bit color. No idea how that happened, but it resolved the issue.

During all of this we did some file cleanup and decided to call it night when we told the NVIDIA driver update to start downloading.

So next time we look at the system I plan to do some final scans, but I think at this point we have the system back up and running.

Remaining items:
-Install NVIDIA update
-Verify Windows Update settings and that all updates are installed
All we installed the night before
-Verify settings for Automatically get recommended drivers and updates for your hardware (Step 3)
Appears to be working already, but need to verify
-Run Anti-Malware Tools:
Spybot search and destroy
Malwarebytes
Super anti-spyware
Tdsskiller
Eset online
Combofix-bleeping computer
MSE
-Review Office Activation issue

I guess at this point, thanks everyone for the input. I expect that our scans won't find anything and now that Office has a network connection it will resolve it's activation issue. If anything else interesting shows up from the remaining items I'll reply again.

To summarize the fix -> Wired Connection and Run In Last Known Good Configuration

Spybot is old school and not recommended by anyone any longer. We recommend SuperAntiSpyware, Malwarebytes and MSE with the Win7 Firewall kept auto-updated.

If one of those doesn't find something then the others are really overkill.

I won't argue that SpyBot has probably reached it's EOL. However, the two most recent times I've dealt with malware, SAS and MWB found some items, but failed to completely remove the malware on the system. MSE has always been a joke when it comes to finding and removing most infections, despite how much I like how lightweight it is(I run it on all of my home systems so I don't feel completely naked).

ComboFix was critical for the first instance(it was the last I ran out of the list above).
It was hard to tell what resolved the last issue, since it was preventing me from uninstalling Strong Vault, which I assumed was part of the malware package, but in the end, I had to manually uninstall it.

If you comment was more, don't go through the whole list if those two don't flag something, then you may have a point.

Thanks again for the help. Hopefully this system will go back to being stable now.

If an infection isn't cleaned up after repeated attempts with reboots then google it and post it up in our Security forum for specialized cleaning tools. We are always wary when we see CombFix being used without prescription and supervision by Security experts.

If MSE isn't sufficient for my installs, I advise the users who get infected regularly to additionally install MB Real Time paid protection in Trial Mode to see if they like it for a month and then if so buy the lifetime protection. THis has ended any of them being reinfected.

Thanks for the feedback on security software.

Out of curiousity, why the concern about ComboFix?

Those I respect from our Security forums have warned me before not to suggest it wholesale without experienced supervision.

I was told there are a number of tools like this that should be prescribed based on the known infection or behavior.