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Question

Cant run regedit

Sep 16, 2015 9:20AM PDT

Hit by some ugly malware that seems to prevent me from running regedit or malwarebytes. gangnamgame.net pops up after a reboot as well as adamax keylogger.When I try to run either one of them nothing at all happens. No errors, no window or anything. The spyware is adamax keylogger which I only know because it shows up every time in the task window and gangnamgame.net launches itself in firefox. I need to run regedit to remove it but I'm guessing the malware itself is what is preventing me from doing so.

I'm not a pc novice and am very aware of all of the BS out there but this one has really done me in.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Let's try simple.
Sep 16, 2015 9:44AM PDT
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Well can you go back to a restore point?
Sep 16, 2015 9:47AM PDT

If you can't try to boot to safe mode and run Anti-Malwarebytes.

I've removed malware from people PC's and what i've done

1. Go to Programs and features in Control Panel and order by date. The I would remove programs that definitely weren't installed by the user

2. Run AMW

That usually does the trick.