No problem, glad to help ^ ...and I really do recommend you try unlocker. It's gonna fix your issue in 5 minutes.
I wish I had a good explanation for why browsers and antivirus programs have started warning people about the site, because they didn't used to... the site has been around forever and hasn't changed in like a decade (see this comparison of the site in 2012 vs. today):
It's only in the past year or so that people have started getting warnings about the emptyloop page or software.
I don't think the site somehow got compromised in the past year, I think the people behind the security programs have just gotten more aggressive about "red-flagging" any kind of software that messes with the windows operating system. Which is necessary to force windows to delete things it doesn't want to delete.
Well anyway, to answer your question, about the whole C$ thing -
You may already know some of this so apologies if I over-explain.
The hard drives in your computer get assigned letters by windows like A, B, C etc... and the default letter for your main hard drive, the one that actually runs windows, is C. That's because in the olden days, virtually all computers came with a couple of drives for floppy disks, which would get the letters A and B. So then the main hard drive would get the letter C. We don't use floppies anymore, but we stick to the convention of calling the main hard drive C. And usually if you have a drive that reads CDs or DVDs, that gets the letter D.
The dollar sign is a windows networking convention. Normally if I want to share files on my computer over a network, I specify certain folders that I want to share. Then someone else on the network can go onto their own computer, click network, see my computer in the list, then click my computer and see a list of folders that I've shared.
But that other person doesn't have to be strictly limited to the folders I set up as "shared", they can access other folders on my computer if I give them permission (via changing certain windows settings on my end).
These other folders don't show up in the public list of shared folders, they're considered "hidden". So the dollar sign means you're looking at a hidden network folder. You can access them if you know the exact folder name, type the address to get to that folder, and add the dollar sign at the end. e.g.
\\bobscomputer\workstuff\hiddenfolder$\ Long story short, this whole "true view" thing is just an alternate way to list files on your own computer, by telling windows to treat it as a networked computer with a hidden folder called "C". The C drive is not really a folder, but windows treats it like one, you can double click it and see a list of the files inside.
99% of windows folders work like this, where you see the folder icon, double click, and get a standard list of files. But a handful of them are special and get a different look or style. Your desktop is actually just a really fancy-looking windows folder (the true path to it is
C:\Users\YourName\Desktop) which can get wallpaper backgrounds. Your start menu is also just a fancy folder, deep down. It lives at
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs. Which brings us back around to the font folder... one of the special folders that gets an unusual view and special options that normal folders don't have, except in this case we don't want those because it makes it a pain to delete unwanted files.
As for how to get to the folder in safe mode, I'm honestly unsure if you tried Safe Mode with Networking, and it didn't work.
The way it SHOULD work is you just open up any folder, click the title bar at the top where you can type, and then manually type
\\localhost\c$\Windows\Fonts ...if that doesn't work, you could also try manually typing your computer's network name instead of the word "localhost". You can find its network name with a kind of obscure shortcut, press the windows key on your keyboard and "pause/break", one of those keys nobody uses anymore but is still available at the top right of most keyboards. This will bring up your windows info page and the computer name is listed somewhere in the middle. Let's say it's grey-pc. That would mean you could instead try typing
\\grey-pc\c$\windows\fonts\ and maybe that will work.
One other option is to delete the fonts using the somewhat arcane windows command prompt. Click start, type cmd, a result will appear the top, right click it and choose run as administrator. Then to manually delete a font from this prompt you'd have to give windows a carefully typed command like
DEL C:\windows\fonts\GothamBold.ttf /F But this method really is no better than the others, and really I'm just gonna say again to get Unlocker
It's basically necessary software for any windows user who doesn't enjoy tearing their hair out in frustration.