Tech Advice Needed - Malware Problem

[Saintly]

Nope, it's not popping up anymore. From what I have read elsewhere, a system restore doesn't necessarily remove the infected files but rather they are just 'dormant' and can still cause issues at a later stage.

I guess I just want to make sure they are removed altogether avoiding having to do a complete re-install.

After running malwarebytes, run a FULL AV scan (I'm certain at this point there isn't any other bug)

I would say get SpyBotSD and run it a few times to check the registry for nastys.

However if you wanted to be sure there's nothing else, you can run spybotSD. I wouldn't rely on it too heavily as the scan engine is quite similar. Also you may find that spybotSD is now rather resource intensive (not like the version they had a couple of years ago)

After which if you think your restore points are infected and don't need it anymore, you can delete it by running a disk cleanup (start, accessories, system tools), 2nd tab provides you an option to delete all restore points except the last