Originally Posted by MikeyG
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^ LOL
Well after harddrive wipe its still fcked :| time for a new pc I guess..
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Are you in possession of the culprit? Knowing what it is will lead to a solution. It seems to fit the symptoms of a
rootkit. I had first hand experience with one of these before. It buries itself in the operating system (hence beyond the reach of any anti-malware software in the OS), hides in the boot sector (same machine recovery would not work), persists in the RAM (invincible to soft-restarts), duplicates itself wildly onto any accessible external and networked storage (spread like wildfire...)
Attempts to remedy it without invoking another machine will mostly be in vain. Take the hard drive out and reformat it via Linux or Mac. With the necessary precautions of course. Thoroughly examine all external storage devices that have come in contact with the infected machine too.
3 guesses how I got the rootkit! There's a good lesson to be learned from the experience.