Originally Posted by
timfountain
First order of business once you have restored would be to get a decent virus/malware scanner. Shame that Windows 8.x is no further along in protecting users from this kind of headache. With the R&D budget that MS has thrown at Windows, you'd think we (users) would be more protected than we are.....
Windows 8 has antivirus and antimalware builtin, what used to be called security essentials and defender is part of the OS now.