Windows 7 only opening!

[woodyoz79]

Hey guys Windows 7 for me at the moment is only opening Internet explorer 64bit and thats it,
It wont run or open anything else pretty much.
im sure ive picked up a virus or something of some sort but i dont know how to fix this


please please help


Regards
Woodyoz

 

[tea]

Try to download Malicious Software Removal Tool | Protect Your Computer

And try to scan with your antivirus. If you can't, boot into safe mode and try there.

 

[woodyoz79]

still wont load anything

hey there,
sorry to be a pain in the ar#$ but it wont even run anything in safe mode..
it will run internet explorer and thats about it


cheers
Woodyoz79

 

[HonorGamer]

In this case i would recommend completely wiping your hard drive, and re-install windows. If it is a virus you will want to get rid of it ASAP.

 

[blackzero]

Pick up your HDD and install it on healthy computer as a slave drive.

Then do a full scan.

 

[HonorGamer]

Pick up your HDD and install it on healthy computer as a slave drive.

Then do a full scan.

The only thing about do that is the fact that if that hard drive does have a bad enough virus to do that, if you hook it up to another machine then it could spread. Am I right?

Thanks,
Gamer

 

[yowanvista]

A system restore might help
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/700-system-restore.html

Run Malwarebytes

 

[EzioAuditore]

Run a scan for malware with Malwarebytes. Rename it iexplore.exe and then try.

If the above option fails, you'd be better off with a windows reinstall as its the safest, surest and fastest fix.

 

[brady]

virus probably modified the .exe registry setting to execute the virus instead of other programs - without a bat file fixing your .exe registry setting, you're in for a rough time.

I've pasted a small .bat entry that you can create in order to help combat the executable(s).
Copy it out into a notepad and save it as a .bat attempt to run this before clicking malwarebytes or whatever you wish to scan with.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.exe\shell\open\command]
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\secfile\shell\open\command]
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe\shell\open\command]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe]
@="exefile"
"Content Type"="application/x-msdownload"
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\secfile]