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Hi all. Today I tried to download a file and I got a message from avg saying it was possible malware. When I clicked avg to remove it, Avg said it had to restart to remove it. When it restarted all my program icons were removed and all every program was removed from the start menu. When I go into my program files all the folders are there though they are all empty. I have never had anything like this happen before. I just did a full scan and it is saying no threats detected.Should I just reinstall windows. Thanks 

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Hi all. Today I tried to download a file and I got a message from avg saying it was possible malware. When I clicked avg to remove it, Avg said it had to restart to remove it. When it restarted all my program icons were removed and all every program was removed from the start menu. When I go into my program files all the folders are there though they are all empty. I have never had anything like this happen before. I just did a full scan and it is saying no threats detected.Should I just reinstall windows. Thanks 

 

Most likely a virus... You can go looking for manual fixes, but it will be hard...

 

I've encountered a virus that imitates Avast's interface... Removed it via reformat and recovered the uninfected files using  a Linux-based system...

Mutsuki:

CPU: AMD A8 5600K @ 4.2GHz | Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A55M-DS2 (rev. 1.0) | RAM: 2 x Kingston Low Profile 4GB 1333MHz | GPU: Sapphire R7 260X OC 2GB DDR5 2xDVI | HDD0: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200RPM 3.5" (SATA II) | HDD1: WD Elements (WD Blue 1TB 3.5" SATA II) connected via USB 2.0 | HDD2: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200rpm (SATA II) | DVD: Samsung DVD+RW combo drive | PSU: FSP Hexa 600W | Case: Aerocool PGS V | Cooling: DeepCool Gammaxx S40 (stock fan), 2x 120mm Aerocool fan 1xDeepCool 120mm fan from a scrapped heatsink

eMachines D732Z | CPU: Intel Pentium D P6100 | GPU: Intel HD 3000 | RAM: 2x Kingston ValueRAM 2GB 1066MHz SODIMM | HDD: Hitachi 320GB 5600RPM

Acer ES13 | CPU: Intel Pentium N4200 | GPU:  Intel HD 505 | RAM: 1x 4GB (unidentified) DDR3L | HDD: (unidentified) 500GB 5600RPM

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I had the samme happen to me with mbab (malwarebytes), only that reformated my entire drive, no os, no annything, that's why I kept a 3tb backupdrive of all my files ;) So I would blame AVG. Make sure you have a official version and not a bad one, I accidentally got my mbam of cnet, so that's how my pc got f'ed.

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I would just try and do a system restore

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