I am trying to repair a machine for a couple of the kids next door. While I am no novice, this one has me pulling out hair. I can run almost NOTHING! IE runs - but gets a zillion "scan your drive for problems" pop-ups. I am afraid to place the machine into my network for fear of migration. Have tried most of the suggestions found here and on many other web sites - all to no avail. tried running spybot, etc etc - all nothing. Can't run smitfraud cleaner or any other reg file - "Task Manager not available b/c it was turned off by admin - NOT... I am really p.o'd on this one and my brain is now officially fried. Please help if ou can - the kids are wanting their computer and I have had it for 3 weeks now. I am sending this from my laptop.

Thanx to all who try

 

 

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Re: Desperate-Can run NO exe,com,et al can run NO msconfig,regedit, taskmgr etc etc

 

"The Original Batman" <batman@gotham.com> wrote in message

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>I am trying to repair a machine for a couple of the kids next door. While I

>am no novice, this one has me pulling out hair. I can run almost NOTHING!

>IE runs - but gets a zillion "scan your drive for problems" pop-ups. I am

>afraid to place the machine into my network for fear of migration. Have

>tried most of the suggestions found here and on many other web sites - all

>to no avail. tried running spybot, etc etc - all nothing. Can't run

>smitfraud cleaner or any other reg file - "Task Manager not available b/c

>it was turned off by admin - NOT... I am really p.o'd on this one and my

>brain is now officially fried. Please help if ou can - the kids are wanting

>their computer and I have had it for 3 weeks now. I am sending this from my

>laptop.

> Thanx to all who try

 

Update your anti-virus protection and scan your system. Remove the drive

from the other machine and connect it to your system via USB adapter or

case. Locate all the temp and browser cache folders for every account,

empty them, and then empty the recycle bin. Much of the malware is

probably living in these folders. Now, scan that drive for malware; if you

scan first it will take much longer, as there will be thousands more files

to examine.

 

If you can't do this from your system, download and burn a Linux boot disk,

even the Ubuntu CD, boot with that, and do the file manipulation from the

Linux desktop. Viruses won't be able to load or affect the Linux files

running from CD.

 

Take a look through the drive for files that are suspicious; for example,

brand-new files with odd names in places they shouldn't be, like the

System32 folder. Either delete or move these files to another location

outside ththe path, so that references to them will be invalid. Scan it

again with another A/V app, such as the online Housecall scanner from

TrendMicro. Look through the Program Files folder, including subfolders

of Common Files, for any malware names. Rename those folders - just add an

X to the start of the name, so you can find them easily later if it turns

out you're mistaken.

 

Put the drive back and start it in Safe Mode. Load another account, such

as the Administrator, and run SmitFraud and other tools from there. Check

the registry Run entries, and also the Startup folders for each account.

 

Set msconfig so the system boots only in Safe Mode, and go into every other

account. Go through the msconfig and the registries in each one and

verify that there are no malware loaders.

 

Worst comes to worst, follow the directions here - you can adapt them to

booting from the Linix disk, with the drive attached to the other system,

and do all the registry backups and copies in one go. This procedure will

set the registry back to a point where no installed apps will be

recognised - but hopefully, neither will any malware, and the system will

start.

 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545

 

Reattach to an internet connection, rerun IE and go to the Housecall site,

and rescan the system. Then, try System Restore.

 

And googling the precise error message you get when Task Manager fails may

get you further suggestions.

 

HTH

-pk

RE: Desperate-Can run NO exe,com,et al can run NO msconfig,regedit, ta

 

Hi The Original Batman,

 

See if using the fixswen utility, provided by McAfee, helps you get exe,

com, reg, etc. running again:

 

http://download.nai.com/products/mcafee-avert/fixswen.inf

Once downloaded, right-click on it and select Install

 

If the above proved successful, then see if d/loading and running this fix,

provided by Doug Knox, assists in getting Task Manager working for the

Current User:

http://dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_taskmgrenab.htm

 

 

 

Regards,

 

--

Patti MacLeod

Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User

 

 

"The Original Batman" wrote:

> I am trying to repair a machine for a couple of the kids next door. While I am no novice, this one has me pulling out hair. I can run almost NOTHING! IE runs - but gets a zillion "scan your drive for problems" pop-ups. I am afraid to place the machine into my network for fear of migration. Have tried most of the suggestions found here and on many other web sites - all to no avail. tried running spybot, etc etc - all nothing. Can't run smitfraud cleaner or any other reg file - "Task Manager not available b/c it was turned off by admin - NOT... I am really p.o'd on this one and my brain is now officially fried. Please help if ou can - the kids are wanting their computer and I have had it for 3 weeks now. I am sending this from my laptop.

> Thanx to all who try

>

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