Cannot change IE start page: www.findthewebsiteyouneed

Hi there,

My PC happen to be infected by several spyware/malware/virus lately. I have scan and remove some of them using several spyware removal. But, there is this some I still can't remove" :-

1.
The IE Start Page will always point to findthewebsiteyouneed.com. If I try to change it in registry, I get error "Cannot edit Start Page,: Error writing the value's new contents.". Of course I have try to change using IE itself, and failed.

2.
I can no longer launch application such as cmd,regedit and ping using Run dialog box, I will get an error message such as "cmd is not a valid Win32 application". But I can run it if I directly click on the program itself. I guess it has something to do with virus or spyware. Can you please help me also on that?

3.
Somehow, I think that regedit.exe has been replaced by a virus version. So, I try to delete regedit.exe. But whenever I deleted it, it keep appearing back. Is that some virus work, or Windows will automatically replace regedit.exe, if being deleted?

If you do need the HJT log, please do tell me.

TQ

 

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