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Malware/Hijack = Startmenu/bar 'locked' out and programs fail to start
Evening all, sorry I'm posting in the dark (irl) on an old laptop, this is as close to a BSOD as can be, sorry if it's the wrong forum. I'll be as specific as I can;
All was well until this evening whereupon restarting caused 'gangnamgame' site (left url out so as not to link) so I decided to sweep for malware, PUP etc.
My preferred program, malwarebytes, would not start. I managed to start it from their 'chameleon' utility; it found about 7 registry entries labelled as 'hijack'/severe/
Upon reboot, startbar, taskmanager and several other utilities would either crash on, fail to start. Powershell and others reported that I did not have relevant administrator privileges...
I managed to run msconfig and schedule safe boot and ran SFC /SCANNOW, I've yet to see if it helps.
This seems pretty bad anyway, like some new or advanced malware? All help greatly appreciated, I can't yet upload logs etc due to machine being broken.