comdlg32

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Hey guys (I hope this is the right place to post this) :)
I'm having this really irritating issue with my pc but let's start from the beginning. Last night everything worked perfectly. This morning I started my pc and did some search on google. Strangely all results were re-directing me to some ad-sites O_o . I read that it might be Google Redirect Virus. So I read some posts about it and people advised to use Norton Power Eraser and so I did. However this really screwed my system upside down. Not only did it delete some files that I knew for fact weren't a virus, it also (I'm presuming) messed around with the comdlg32.dll file. No apps will start (luckily the browser will) as the error message comes up saying "This application failed to start because comctl32.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem." . Now the Norton did resolve the issue with google virus but did this. I tried running scannow but it would only go up to 8% and then it would stop so I tried scanning a specific file (in this case comdlg) and it did say that system successfully repaired the corrupted file and I should restart the system. After the restart however the problem still exist and I'm back where I started. I have no idea how to fix this so I'm hoping you guys will be able to help out. I think I gave enough information but if you need anything just ask.
Thanks, Bartek!
 
Hey, sorry yes windows 7. I would try however the system restore was turned off for some reason O_o . I think I will have to although I really want to try everything before I do. I've spent ages customizing everything the way it is and really not looking forward to doing it again. Appreciate your reply tho. I'll try to run this Combofix and see what it does!

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Ok so I ran the Combofix in safe mode, after it finished my pc restarted and now where do I look if it found/removed anything? Sorry if it's a dumb question :/
 
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Sorry for double post but I stumbled across a major problem right now. I'm trying to back-up some of the files which I'm going to need later on however when I try to copy anything I get the error message with "Failed to load DLL comdlg32.dll". I'm using teracopy to copy/paste files however that being an application that used comdlg it won't run now and I can't do anything about it. I can't even un-install it as the comdlg files is required for it. Any idea how can I back-up my files? I really can't afford loosing any of those files :(
 
I mentioned in the first post that the scannow doesn't work as it stops at 8% and won't go any further :/ . Anyway I manage to zip all my files that I wanted to back up and did a fresh install of windows. No idea how did it got to that stage but oh well. Thanks a lot for your help anyway, much appreciate it.
 
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