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Yeah, my daughter managed to get it on one of my dev PC's last weekend.

It can be removed but doing so totally hoses the registry and you lose all app associations.

It basically associates .exe with itself so no matter what app you try to run it opens the malware.

Easiest fix I found to avoid reinstalling the system is to remove it, create a new user account then migrate the user data from the infected one to the new one.
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