Glennster......yours 26/6 ..... Virus.???

Don't think it is a virus... I have Advanced System Optimiser which I purchased from "Herman" It cleans up the Registry etc.

What happens with these free scans is that it does the initial scan, notes the problems, and then you must purchase the system to erase the problems. So it is a scan without solving the problem unless etc.
So did you use the free scan because what you said would fit in there,but is incomplete.You still have the problem.
See my post below about DMP, mine picked these up.

bendee, i got hit hard on one of my shops computers, the other computer we caught before it did any damage. i had a tech working on the one for two days, he got it up and running somewhat, but it locks up a lot and i have trouble accessing certain software on the system. it also will occassionally not be able to acesss the dvd drive. one of my employees was on ebay checking on something he had posted for sale.. a screen poped up that looked like a windows error screen that had a list of about 5 hard drive errors. he closed the screen, and it came back about 5 more times before he said any thing. not being computer savvy, what i understand is all the programs are still there, but it wiped out all the software to get to it. the other computer did the pop up when i first boooted it the next day, but i "yanked the cord" right away. malwarebytes found the trojan viruses in it too. the two systems are not on a network, but share the same router. i had to run malware bytes on the bad computer 3 times before it got all the trojan viruses out. it was just plain nasty. the tech said the virus came from somewhere in eastern europe. i may take the computer in and see if they can save the programs and data, wipe the hard drive and re-load everything. i'd love to find one of these virus guys in a dark alley, and show him the three S's !!!!!!

I am working a computer with a problem similar to yours. I cleaned it with Malwarebytes but the virus had disabled all the program ".exe" files. I was able to fix it by starting in the safe mode as administrator and setting up a new user. I could run everything in the safe mode. I transferred all his documents etc to the new user and all his programs are now working.