Virus crashing system (even in safe mode) - looping explorer.exe

Operating system Windows7 64BIT

I have some virus or whatever and even if safe mode crashes out the taskbar and just puts explorer into a continuous loop.
Even in windows7 normal mode i'm just unable to do anything at all.

When i downloaded an executable file before this started happening
i had it stored on my hdd, but i never actually opened it so i'm very confused as to how it actually got in?

If a video is helpful:
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I have tried running Malwarebytes with no success did not find anything at all full/quick/flash -
latest definitions from this week. rkill did not do anything

When i was getting system logs from gmer came back with
c:\windows\system32\config\system: The System cannot find the file specified.

although i was still able to run it partially half way through a scan it said -
Runtime Error!
Program c:\windows\SyWOW64\DllHost.exe


Any help in removing this would be greatly appreaciated.

i just hope it hasnt completly damaged any files which would require a reformat

Thank you.

Edited by Whytey, 10 September 2010 - 10:57 AM.

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   msconfig
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   drivers32
   netsvcs
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   scecli.dll
   netlogon.dll
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   ntelogon.dll
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   %systemroot%\Tasks\*.job /lockedfiles
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