There's literally no reason to use anything other than barebones Avast (Uncheck all the options when you install) and MBAM.

I fixed it by system restore. Somehow made it crash, allowing me to boot it up again and remove 70 files out of quarantene

My Commodore 64 is immune to any of this.

Bad Panda!!!

+1 for Fruitcase antivirus.

PSA:

Stop using AVS on consumer machines.

Learn to sandbox/virtualize.

I honestly doubt the usefulness of antivirus softwares. I have been going without an antivirus software for more than 2 years now and never had any malware/trojan/virus. I only visit a set of familiar safe sites, no dodgy activity so I guess common sense is the best antivirus maybe?

If there is anything seemingly harmful I can look for it using standard windows tools (registry, msconfig, safemode etc)

As a not very techy person, it's really baffling looking at all these comments from all these people advocating this method or that method, this software, that software, lack of software... do this, don't do that. This is better, that is bad, use this and you're stupid, use that and you're smart... etc. etc. etc. Like holy jeez. And they're usually so firmly convinced they're right too.

Hardly "bricks" a PC, but whatever. Shit happens.

Use Malwarebytes Pro