Win 7 Guardian

17Feb10

What fun I have had today with this lovely program. It silently installs itself onto your PC from infected web sites or can be attached to some legit software. It takes over parts of the Windows system and pretty much stops you doing anything to remove it.

My AVG picked it up and tackled it and after a fashion removed it, however it had left some damage.

In an effort to stop you trying to remove it it deletes the .exe association within Windows so your unable to run pretty much any or all applications.

There are a whole load of ways online to get rid of it if your AV does not pick it up but this link hosts a simple registry fix to re-associate your .exe files as applications.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/19449-default-file-type-associations-restore.html