Anyone heard of this one?

[Vietster1]

Hello folks, Just the other day I got an infection. I dont know what it was but this is what happened. I was browsing torrents, when all of the sudden, things went haywire, I had downloaded anything. My Norton Internet Security and Antivirus disapeared. I had a warning in my tray that my computer has been infected, click here to (some rouge program) to fix this problem now. Right away I knew that I was infected. I signed off, unplugged my ethernet cable so that there was no live interference from the web and I did the first thing I always do when this happens. I went to run malwarebytes. I clicked on it, nothing happened. I went into program files so that I can rename the exe. file to something else, (so that the bug couldnt intercept) it diddnt work. So I automatically went to Combofix. I tried to run that, it diddnt work. Windows security center popped up, gave some kind of crazy message that definately diddnt come from Microsoft, then all of the sudden I got messages that all my programs are closing and windows was shutting down. I couldnt stop it. I knew things were going to be ugly if it shut down. I went to unplug the PC (so that it couldnt finish saving the settings and really screwing me) but I was too late, and the machine was started back up again. anyway, all I got was a black screen, No PS/2 mouse, though the USB worked, As did my usb Keyboard, (I guess the hacker diddnt bother to take out the control on the USB ports). I could get into task manager and that was about it. I couldnt start any programs, The My Computer icon was that of an undesignated file. I was able to copy some of my stuff to an external drive but the machine restarted again on its own and when it came back on, I had no external drive recognized. I had no choice but to Hit F10 and restore the machine back to factory settings and start all over again.

Now what I am asking, is, does anyone have any idea what bug this may have been, Does anyone have any idea if there was something else I could have done to recover the machine? I want to know these things just in case I get another visit from this bug. Cause that was something else I tell you. Please give me some feedback here. Thanks!

[EXreaction]

You probably could have gotten in through safe mode and then cleaned it out.

Good chance that the USB drive you plugged in is now infected as well.

[Vietster1]

Well, I have scanned all the files that I took from the machine. I recopied them. I tried safemode by the way. I forgot to mention that. I have scanned for malware 15 times since I restored this beast. There is nothing there, If it does, come back, I am going to format this thing multiple times and then reinstall windows. Good looking out though, I did scan my usb drive well. I got the same thing when I went into safe mode, however the task manager was in 4 bit like the machine would be booting in safe mode.