OK so haven't been around much of late because I just got smashed with some fucken "a.exe" virus
It totally killed my anti virus along with every other anti virus and malware removal program I tried to get fired up.
It killed IE totally saying I do not have the rights to open that program, leaving only firefox which could only run in safemode, It also did the "you are not allowed to use this program" to all the anti virus, and malware removal programs once they had been initialised and a scan attempted on the drive, even booting from a CD and attempting the scan from there got locked out and caused the programs to crash and burn, or evaporate into thin air mid scan.
Seems this "a.exe" is quite a persistant bastard and none of the so called fixes I found were able to fix it, and believe me I tried quite a few of them, and about a dozen different programs none of which were able to do jack shit about it.
If you happen to see "a.exe" running in your active processes then you are basically fucked so.... remove all partitions from the affected drives and do a complete reformat and clean install, seems the only way to be sure it has gone.
Internet usage during the past 24 hrs since I found it.
Crysis 54%
IE & FF 40%
a.exe 3%
all other programs 3%
I will get stuff re-installed soon enough and I'll see Ya's then.