task manager disabled

[Guest]

Since beta 1 cleaned out 4 files spyware every time I try to use the task
manager I get a box that says task manager was disabled by administrator. But
since I am the administrator and I did not disable TM it must have happened
during the spyware attack.

How do I enable it again?

 

[Andre Da Costa]

This is spyware Trojan, I suggest you download both Spybot Search & Destroy
and Adaware and run both utilities in Safe Mode.
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[Guest]

Heres how to bring Task Manager back, either manually navigate to these
area's using regedit and change the dword value from 1 to 0 or download the
regfix below to automatically fix the entries:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy
Objects\LocalUser\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system]

This is the way it will look on yours :

"DisableTaskMgr"=dword:00000001

This is the way it should be to enable task manager:

"DisableTaskMgr"=dword:00000000

so all you do is right click each DisableTaskMgr entry and choose modify
then chage it from 1 to 0 and press OK

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Regfix
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Download this file and save it to your desktop :

http://andymanchesta.com/RegFix/TaskManager.reg

double click TaskManager.reg and allow it to be merged into the registry
then try task manager again, If you want to view the contents of the regfix
right click the file and choose to open with notepad.

Its also worth running at least one online virus scan to make sure the
system is clean.

http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan
http://housecall.antivirus.com/
http://www.symantec.com/cgi-bin/securitycheck.cgi
http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner
http://us.mcafee.com/root/mfs/default.asp?cid=8433

All The best

Andy