poweliks virus

addressed here 

actually, in my case I had a mp4 I had downloaded from youtube through a downloading site.
the mp4 itself was doing the trouble - so I went in safe mode and deleted the file - I even had to clear recycle bin


now it looks ok

Attrib

I have , over the past years, contracted nasty viruses from my kids media. One particular one would hide all the files on a drive and create files with the same name that were links to the lord knows where.

I removed them and ran for e.g.

C:\>attrib -h -r -s u:\investments

note:

You must remove the h attribute for the other attributes to be removed