.protected?

[retribution]

I'm trying to sort out a PC for a friend. They downloaded a "virus checker" (read: virus infested software) about a month ago, and I thought I'd got rid of it. I did a spybot check the other day and their antivirus told me that a file, unist.exe I think it was, in C:\Windows, was a trojan, and couldn't be deleted. So I booted into safe mode, and deleted the file. Since then, when windows loads it comes up with an "Can't open file type: .protected" and then the "What sort of software would you like to open this with/choose from a list etc etc".

Any ideas how I can stop this?

I tried googling, but couldn't for the life of me work out how to get google to search the "." in .protected

Many thanks,

Rob.

 

[retribution]

Thanks for the replies. Went into msconfig>startup and found the two ".protected" entries, and disabled them. However, now, the system isn't booting in "normal" mode but selective startup. Is this a problem?

Thanks again,

Rob.