Virus/Worm Has Destroyed My Antivirus Programs

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esoxlee

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Virus/Worm Has Crippled My Antivirus Programs

Few days ago my PC started to act up. Here's the sequence of events.

1/ Login and Password Screen started to appear during startup despite the fact I deactivated them when I got the PC 6 months ago.

2/ Error message Unable to load icon skins would appear during PC startup

3/ AVG or Avast would no longer launch during startup

4/ When I manually startup either AVG or Avast, I get

xxxx.exe IS NOT A VALID WIN32 APPLICATION.. This message only appears with the start up of Antivirus programs.

5/ Tried to run online virus scan using Kapersky's on CNET but PC would shutdown a few seconds into the test

6/ Launch in safe mode would cause PC to go into a loop of constant rebooting.

7/ Using system restore fails everytime

Any ideas would be appreciated.
 
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Combofix should never take more that 20 minutes including the reboot if malware is detected.
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