Had a virus on my desktop that redirects any search engine results to a page of their crap. Happens with google and any other search engine. I had AVG on this machine but was lax on it. Go to scan, and AVG is gone? Malwarebyte and spybot dont find it. Download and run Avast, didnt fix it (AVG is apparently no longer free). Next day, Avast is gone, WTF! Not sure if the virus is wiping out my AV programs.
So I re-download and run Avast again, but this time I deleted the two infected files instead of putting them in the "vault". Apparently they were important system files, because I can't boot the machine.
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