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[miekiemoes]

I am sorry to hear that more and more problems appear..

Looks like a lot got corrupted - and I guess this is mainly because services are failing to start - most probably because of a corrupted registry/corrupted files.
I really have no clue how this suddenly all happened.. Guess it was already corrupted before.. And as I already explained, it had nothing to do with what Combofix removed - it was mainly what was done to the system before and that last reboot after using Combofix made it final.

No need to reformat - A repair install should normally solve this as well.
A repair install doesn't remove your files, but it will be a good idea anyway to backup your important files you don't want to loose - this just in case.

Then read here how to perform a repair install:
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
Afterwards you should reinstall all Windows updates again.

Sidenote and important note - do not use scanners such as Pestpatrol, True Sword, Uniblue, because I don't like them since I have seen them deleting a lot of false positives as well. Stick with Spybot s&d as your Spyware scanner. Also, don't visit cracksites anymore, because malware is always present there and malware damages A LOT.

[elvira]

i did repair on my pc, but things got only worse. then i reformatted, lost some files because i couldn't copy after the repair.

reformatting ran smoothly. now pc is definitely clean.

thank you for your much appreciated help.

[miekiemoes]

Good everything is Ok now. Guess the damage was worse than expected.

I just hope you keep in mind not to visit cracksites or other illegal sites anymore.. because that's what I already said in my first post - that's where malware is lurking and malware damages A LOT.

Please read my Prevention page with lots of info and tips how to prevent this in the future.
And if you want to improve speed/system performance after malware removal, take a look here.

Happy Surfing again!