This worked GREAT!! Thanks for all your info! The only problem I had was the malware would not let me download, so I put on thumb drive and went from there. (I think that was the problem). A strange thing that happened to me, while running the scans I got a recorded call from Windows Service wanting me to press 1 to get help because my software was sending a lot of error to them. Did not understand what the recording was saying so wanted to hear it again, it did not play and the line went dead. (Our computer is like 3 years old I’m sure the service contract has run out)??? Strange, again thanks for the post!!
I am glad that you were able to fix it. 
I tried to download the malwarebytes link and it says my current security setting do not allow this file to be downloaded. What security settings do I need? I am the admin for my computer.
Thanks for posting this. Yesterday I clicked on an article in Facebook, and then I got this virus…I had the powershell errors plus my computer got bogged down with all kinds of processes I had never heard of before, Norton was blocking my computer from connecting to two remote IP addresses, and I couldn’t download anything to fix it while in the user mode I was in when I got the virus. I did the steps here, found and deleted one malware, but then my computer was still acting odd, I reran one of the malwarebytes scans and it found 131 malwares! Back to administrator safemode where I’ve been running other scans like Trend Micro Housecall…once I run that and fixpoweliks64 by Symantic and rerun Malwarebytes anti-rootkit and not find anything, I hope I will be safe. I found an article at Trendlabs where they show there Poweliks is in the registry but even looking at the registry scares me… I was running Norton that you get free from Comcast when this whole thing happened. Not sure if I should reload that or what. Not sure if I need to deactivate restores that were created on my computer from the day before and day of the virus happening.
Thank you for letting us know.
Omg thank you so much ! I followed your instructions and it worked! Everything! Now my computer alive again ! Those links are so helpful thank you for sharing this !
Gracias!! I was able to follow all the steps and now my computer is same as it was before getting infected with Poweliks. I cannot thank you enough for saving me $300’s for having it repaired.
Awesome, i look forward to the results.
Thank you for posting this. I am trying this now and praying it works! The scan is running.
Please check now, link is updated. How long did malwarebytes scan took?