Trojan Horse Windows 7 Recovery:Follow

So I've had experience with the MS removal tool trojan, it took me a while but I got rid of that one (twice, on my parent's computer too).

However, this trojan horse (I think it is anyway) is something else.

The idea is the same, it blocks access to most other programs, runs a 'scan' of the computer and reports a lot of damage, in my case it said that my harddrives are damaged for over 30%. I can no longer access most of the data on my HDD, some directories still show but are 'empty'. All icons on my screen are gone, ctrl-alt-del works but there's no longer a mention of task manager. (when I check my harddrives, they do still mention that there's a lot of data on them, I just can't access it anymore) My favourites list is empty too when I go online, yet when I add a new favourite of something I had on the list before, my computer does say that it already exists, I just can't see it.

I can't start my computer in safe mode, for some reason my keyboard does not function when I try to access this, so I can't chose that option.

However, at first glance, running malwarebytes scanner, seems to have gotten rid of the trojan, or at least it's not showing itself anymore which would be odd as it's just a credit card scam if I'm not mistaken, pushing people to buy the 'solution' to all the so-called 'computer problems'.

I'm still running a full scan with the microsoft security essentials, which together with malwarebytes worked on my parent's computer when they had the ms removal tool problem. But I'm wondering if there's perhaps a setting in windows itself that's perhaps the problem here now, are there settings that can block access to icons and also wallpapers and full directories or am I just kidding myself and is that trojan still messing up my computer?

Anyone have experience with this Windows 7 Recovery trojan?

Thanks in advance!

I thought as much, although the virus itself doesn't pop up anymore. The microsoft security program got rid of a trojan too, but my computer still refuses to show most directories, icons and taskmanager, it just says that the administrator turned it off and it will not turn it back on by using the run command either unfortunately. It's odd though, I can't access my music directory for instance (correction: my computer says it's empty), but I can play all the music in it through media player.

My computer is about 3 and a half years, I am using an USB keyboard but I can take a ps2 keyboard home from work tomorrow, there are plenty of old ones there I can use.

I'm also going to put Norton back on my computer, I've used it earlier but it just seemed to pop up its head constantly, still I can't recall many problems when I used it so I suppose it just might be worth it after all.

Thanks for the tip!

that directory is hidden by default. You have to enable "view protected operating system files and folders" and "Show hidden files and folders" in the folder options under control panel to see them. TO fully clean the virus, please check out the Computer security 101 sticky at the top of this forum. Also, to force safe mode, type "msconfig" in the run box on the start menu (without the quotation marks) and set it to boot in diagnostic startup mode. Same thing.

Ok, final update: running several programs (spybot and malwarebytes in particular) under safe mode did get rid of a couple of registry problems and a couple of smaller things too.

After that, I did check config screen again and I finally found the option to make my computer show me all that is on my harddrives again, apparently they were considered to be read-only and hidden. I haven't got everything back as of yet, for some reason my EQII icon is still gone for instance but I might get this sorted out without having to delete everything. I still might do that though, just to be sure that I got rid of all viruses and trojans.

Thanks again for the info!