Vundo Vista Infection - Please Help!

[Jenna123]

i changed the settings to match what you had posted in that picture, but it was cut off so I am not sure if it all matches. nothing has changed.
I will be back in about 2 hours!

[Broni]

OK. Let me know, when you're back. I'll keep digging.

[Broni]

You may try some steps from here:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/10...nt-change.html

[Broni]

As for icons...

Launch an elevated CMD window, ie Right click, Run as Administrator...
Shutdown Explorer Process from the Task Manager
In the CMD window go to C:\Users\<ProfileName>\AppData\Local
Do the following command: attrib -H IconCache.db
Do the following command: del IconCache.db
Do the following command: start explorer

Restart computer.

[Jenna123]

I went to the website regarding the desktop background and I did not come across anything that I had not tried yet.
For the icons, I did it once through c:\users\jenna\appdata\... and not through c:\users\administrator\appdata\... is this correct? also, I did it without closing explorer by accident the first time, when I went to re-do this process again, of course it did not work since I had already deleted the file *.db...
Where should I go from here???

[Broni]

Restart computer.

[Jenna123]

I restarted, and icons are still not back.
background on desktop is still the same as well.

[Broni]

We don't have too many options left.
Since hidden admin account displays same problems, we can safely assume, that the infection did some damage to system files.
BTW, it's a good idea to hide that account back, so nobody plays with it (follow instructions from very same link).
Now...$100 quesstion. Do you have Vista DVD?

[Jenna123]

nope, no vista dvd
come with my comp

[Jenna123]

would reformatting and re-installing vista be my best bet?

[Broni]

I tried to avoid it, but it seems like the only option left.