Noel
Sat Sep 10 14:51:54 CDT 2005
any error involving explorer should first be treated as a potential
infection - if that proves negative, then it's worth looking deeper.....
Archie - FWIW, the loss of the icons in the System Tray is normal when
Explorer crashes in Win9x - but the loss of the desktop icons is not.
A reboot should bring both back, but if not, try the following....
Start| Run
type
SCRANREG /FIX
click OK, and reboot on request.
(BTW - are you using Norton??)
--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows)
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"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message
news:%234X2V8jtFHA.2624@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> From: "Noel Paton" <NoelDPspamless@btopenworld.com>
>
> |
> | You may already have a virus/spyware hijack
> |
> | download the Stinger from here and run it to make sure that
> A-V-disabling
> | viruses are not present on your PC
> |
http://vil.mcafeesecurity.com/vil/averttools.asp
> |
> | - update your virus scanner and run a full system scan of all files.
> |
> | Reboot to Safe Mode and run CWShredder - to remove variants of the
> | CoolWebSearch hijacker.
> |
http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html
> |
> | Use CWShredder, the removal tool:
> |
http://www.intermute.com/products/cwshredder.html
> | (download it without the accompanying rubbish)
> |
> | download AdAware SE Personal Edition from www.lavasoftusa.com, install,
> | update, and run it to remove spyware, adware, and other such nasties
> from
> | your system.
> |
> | --
> | Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows)
> |
> | Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
> |
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> |
> |
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> |
> | Please read
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> NG's
> |
>
> That's funny.... He posted in MS Security/Virus and I thought it to be an
> OS error and not
> malware related so I told him to post in an appropriate OS based News
> Group. And here it
> was... ;-)
>
> OK... I'll put my AV software advice in for good measure...
>
>
> Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
>
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe
>
> It is a self-extracting ZIP file that contains the Kixtart Script
> Interpreter {
>
http://kixtart.org Kixtart is CareWare } three batch files, five Kixtart
> scripts, one Link
> (.LNK) file, a PDF instruction file and two utilities; UNZIP.EXE and
> WGET.EXE. It will
> simplify the process of using; Sophos, Trend and McAfee Anti Virus
> Command Line Scanners to
> remove viruses, Trojans and various other malware.
>
> C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
> This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in
> Normal Mode. This
> way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor?s web site.
> The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Exit the menu and Reboot the PC.
>
> You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files
> or you can
> download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have
> downloaded the files
> needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into
> Safe Mode [F8 key
> during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want
> to run in Safe
> Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal
> Mode.
>
> When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more
> comprehensive PDF help
> file.
>
> To use this utility, perform the following...
> Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
> Choose; Unzip
> Choose; Close
>
> Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
> { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }
>
> NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to
> go through your
> FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.
>
> * * * Please report back your results * * *
>
>
>
> --
> Dave
>
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
>
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
>
>