Hi,
I profess to no particular expertise, however is it possible you could do a system restore to an earlier time before you experienced this problem?
it reminds me of a nasty i got a year ago which prevented me accessing the internet at all, disabled my antivirus software and sadly also in that case deleted all my restore points - i ended up needing a full format and install, but maybe you can still do a system restore?
good luck.

When dealing with an infection System Restore should be left alone until the computer is deemed clean. THEN, and only then, you should set a new and clean restore point by turning off System Restore and turning it back on. But until the computer is clean, leave it alone.

I know there ARE forums which tell people to turn it off.....

Of course I think System Restore itself is so mis-understood anyway. So many seem to think it is the "end all and be all" of fixing, when in reality many times it does more harm than good. . . .

I liken this argument to users who have disabled malware via msconfig.
A lot of volunteers will ask those users to remove those items and restore normal startup . . .. Why? Why do this?
Why allow malware that has previously been stopped from running to start and potentially "phone home" for reinforcements??

That, to me, is a dumb practice (and yes, I used to do that back before I really considered the consequences). I think in the past when we were all too dependent upon HJT, you needed to do this to get a good look at things.
But with DDS / RSIT et al, that is no longer necessary. We can see what has been stopped and deal accordingly.....

PP

Have done this myself, but stress to the user NOT to reboot . . . .