Help! Got a problem with PC loading progs

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Hope this is the right place to post.

My PC has some how got its self Vista Internet Security 2010, so i googled it and its a bogus program. So, I go to unistall it and there is no uninstall for it, so i had to use some command then run spy bot to get rid of it.

I've now got rid of it but now every time i open a program it brings up the "open with screen", so effectively i have to go thorugh program files then choose each program though there. How do i get rid of this?

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saw this on a pc i dealt with a few weeks back.
you need to delete this key in the registry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.exe
(make a backup first)
If you look deeper it will have something like <path>/av.exe %1, which was the malware that spybot removed.

I would also suggest you scan your pc with malwarebytes, just to be safe no other malware got installed.
 
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Start > Run/Search > type in regedit

Be careful when doing anything in the registry, create a system restore first.

I would suggest you run malwarebytes first, as it should detect and fix it.
 
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