Guest elitewolverine Posted November 18, 2008 Posted November 18, 2008 let me start off by saying this problem is just killing my braincells. i have read your forums for quite some time now and, well, i needed to join because im just at a total loss to whats going on, and nothing on google or yahoo has shown up. Heres story: Friend calls me while im at work, and says, whats up with rundll32 error. from my experience especially since i have spybot adaware avg and other things that i trim my pc with. I simply remark oh thats usually a messup with the display card or a small dll error (it was more technical than that). I go home slick close error and i think all is fine. I didnt bother getting up on the pc and doing scans and all that jazz nor did i have the time. Now here are the issues that came just a day after. IE: i can open generic sites such as yahoo or google. I try to access any anti-virus site and i get some 'http 20' (http:///?20) type error. Or sites like majorgeeks i get the same. I do a web search via yahoo, google, and any link i click opens up a new window and takes me to some random site, about 3 or 4 in total before finally resting on one site but it like hops all on its own in that window. Spybot: Will no longer run, keeps getting rundll32 error over and over, and i get rundll32 error over and over even when im not doing anything on the pc firefox: will not even load up Windows services: My pictures, my videos and certain other folders have been 'locked' out, and controll panel or chkdsk all create errors or they fail to start upon boot up like i tell them too. Windows restore is broke as well, even though the recovery drive shows 5gigs used, it will always say no recovery spot to look at. And i think my admin password was changed Safe Mode: i thought this would fix it, nope safe mode nothing runs either its basically the above problem with worse graphics Things i have tried. AVG runs but finds nothing or if it does find something its tracking cookies, spybot wont run so thats a dead horse, HiJackThis, i have run but wont uninstall some things, windows defender found one item removed it but didnt fix any of my problems, i have used various other software from days of old when i was a part time pc tech but those are old programs (though they found one or two each). Regedit doing manual removal. one thing that is consistent is antivirus2009 pops up everynow and then which i know is a virus type program and i have tried various ways to remove all without success. My only option IMO, is to buy a new hard drive, and reinstall vista, i cant really reinstall on that drive because i just have to many files from pictures to 3d modelling type files that i use as a hobby, and countless other files i just cant afford to 'loose' with a fresh install any ideas? -- elitewolverine Quote
Guest Malke Posted November 18, 2008 Posted November 18, 2008 elitewolverine wrote: (snippage, answer at bottom) <span style="color:blue"> > i can open generic sites such as yahoo or google. I try to access any > anti-virus site and i get some 'http 20' (http:///?20) type error. Or > sites like majorgeeks i get the same. I do a web search via yahoo, > google, and any link i click opens up a new window and takes me to some > random site, about 3 or 4 in total before finally resting on one site > but it like hops all on its own in that window. > > Spybot: Will no longer run,</span> <span style="color:blue"> > firefox: will not even load up</span> <span style="color:blue"> > My pictures, my videos and certain other folders have been 'locked' > out, and controll panel or chkdsk all create errors or they fail to > start upon boot up like i tell them too. Windows restore is broke as > well, even though the recovery drive shows 5gigs used, it will always > say no recovery spot to look at. And i think my admin password was > changed > > Safe Mode: > i thought this would fix it, nope safe mode nothing runs either its > basically the above problem with worse graphics > > Things i have tried. AVG runs but finds nothing or if it does find > something its tracking cookies, spybot wont run so thats a dead horse, > HiJackThis, i have run but wont uninstall some things, windows defender > found one item removed it but didnt fix any of my problems, i have used > various other software from days of old when i was a part time pc tech > but those are old programs (though they found one or two each). Regedit > doing manual removal. > > one thing that is consistent is antivirus2009</span> Your system is infected with a rogue antivirus program. It is called "rogue" because it pretends to be A Good Guy but is really Evil. Do not pay them! If you are infected with XP Antivirus or Antivirus 2009/10, here are removal steps: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/malware-re...-antivirus-2009 http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic154529.html (earlier versions) Removal instructions for Antivirus 2009: http://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=5178 These may work for you and all may be well. However, in many cases the computer will also be infected with Zlob and/or Vundo trojans and protected by a rootkit. These machines are extremely difficult to clean. If your machine is one of these cases, either get guided help at one of the specialty forums below OR back up your data and do a clean install of Windows. It is your choice. If you are unsure how to back up your data or how to do a clean install, you can take your machine to a local computer professional. I don't recommend using BigComputerStore/GeekSquad types of places. PLEASE DO NOT POST LOGS IN THE MS NEWSGROUPS. http://aumha.org/downloads/hijackthis.zip http://aumha.net/ - Click on the HijackThis forum. Read the announcement and the stickies first . http://www.atribune.org/forums/index.php?showforum=9 http://aumha.net/viewforum.php?f=30 http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/forum22.html http://www.dslreports.com/forum/cleanup http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=25 http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/Malware_Rem...o_Here-f37.html http://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/index.php?showforum=7 http://gladiator-antivirus.com/forum/index.php?showforum=170 http://spywarewarrior.com/viewforum.php?f=5 http://forums.techguy.org/54-security/ http://forums.tomcoyote.org/ http://www.thespykiller.co.uk/index.php?board=3.0 http://forums.subratam.org/index.php?showforum=7 Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic! FAQ - http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ Quote
Guest elitewolverine Posted November 18, 2008 Posted November 18, 2008 thanks for the quick reply, i have tried to remove 2009 before, its just been very very hard because of the ie hack, i cant get to a vast majority of sites that help with problems my favorite majorgeeks. Right now im at work and is how im able to do it here on this forum. Ill try all those you posted I think im going to do a hard 2days left, if i find the solution ill post it or at least what i did... funny thing is i used to be the guy you took the pc too, now im the one on the other end lol. if all fails, it will be a darn good reason to purchase that 1TB HDD that i have been looking at... one last thing is there anywhere i can find bare minimum registry files? like a pc that has a fresh fresh install and a saved registry file so that i can use a program to compare the two side by side? -- elitewolverine Quote
Guest Richard Urban Posted November 18, 2008 Posted November 18, 2008 Have you any idea as to how long it would take you to look at every line in the registry? There are, in some cases, hundreds of thousands. One of my malware scanners looks at 128,000 lines - and that is not even the complete registry. Have you got a spare month with nothing to do? (o: -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "elitewolverine" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message news:0aa4fdfa4ab43ff56e35fb33b5497214@nntp-gateway.com...<span style="color:blue"> > > thanks for the quick reply, i have tried to remove 2009 before, its just > been very very hard because of the ie hack, i cant get to a vast > majority of sites that help with problems my favorite majorgeeks. Right > now im at work and is how im able to do it here on this forum. Ill try > all those you posted > > I think im going to do a hard 2days left, if i find the solution ill > post it or at least what i did... > > funny thing is i used to be the guy you took the pc too, now im the one > on the other end lol. > > if all fails, it will be a darn good reason to purchase that 1TB HDD > that i have been looking at... > > one last thing is there anywhere i can find bare minimum registry > files? like a pc that has a fresh fresh install and a saved registry > file so that i can use a program to compare the two side by side? > > > -- > elitewolverine </span> Quote
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