Hobspot shiled has changed my pc, programs not working, etc

[sy gardner]

Hi guys,

Basically I have moved address and have to wait until Wednesday for the broadband to be installed again in the new address. Anyway, I wanted to access my Steam games, and I couldn't by using the temporary dongle that I had bought., due to the ports being blocked or whatever

So after a bit of research to try and work around Steam not opening, I went and downloaded a VPN software program called Hubspot Shield, and it worked in getting steam to update and letting me access it, etc.

Anyway, I turned off the PC last night, and when I woke up this morning and turned it back on, my desktop had completely changed, the image was changed to something else I didn't even know I had, the programs where all laid out differently, my anti virus software had been turned off (and it won't let me turn it back on) and also certain programs no longer work, including Google Chrome, it appears to have just disappeared completely, as do some of the others.

I am a bit worried as something doesn't feel right with my machine, obviously with so many things changing and stuff.

I would appreciate it if anyone has any idea about what might have happened, or what is causing this?

I have deleted the hubspot shield program now, but everything is still the same, and nothing will work like it did previously, etc.

Thank you very much to anyone who can help me.

 

[Haven]

Have you contacted "Hubspot Shield" support to see what they say about their software? I did a search and was not able to find this software or anything about it. So I don't think I will be able to help.

Have you tried running any anti-malware software like Malware Bytes, SuperAntiSpyware, Hijack This?

 

[sy gardner]

I'll have a look for the details when I get back in about an hour, thanks a lot for the reply dude

 

[Electrofreak]

Hobspot shield right? From what I see online, it's not a malicious program, but if you didn't download it from the developer's site then its very possible that someone binded a virus to the program, definitely sounds like your pc has been hijacked.

Definitely hit it with some antispyware apps from safe mode and see if you can remove it.