Oh bugger it! Some git has managed to knacker my desktop pc :(
Looks like my desktop pc has been successfully attacked by some malware called AVAsoft Professional Antivirus, which is effectively just an exploit of a vulnerability in internet explorer which allows a click on a web page to install software with no further interaction and locks you out of trying to shut down the programme or repair it. I believe possibly fixed by microsoft updates released this afternoon.
Typing this on my laptop while I try and decide whether to attempt to repair, knowing the software has potentially installed one or more back doors
I thought I'd got away with it after a safe mode clean up with Malwarebytes but it's refusng to run microsoft updates as one of the services required has been deleted, not just switched off! I'd already run the MS system file scanner as it'd replaced a system32 executable file....
Getting some help off an IT forum but they're basically suggesting I should seriously consider a complete rebuild of the pc, which I could do without 
Got quite enough going on at the moment without this, but at least the laptop appears OK and the PC is running so I can pull stuff off it if I need to.
Grrrrrr
Adrian
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