Error Creating Registry Key

[woody]

I am cleaning up a relative's pc which was eat up with spyware and a few
Trojans. It is a Dell Dimension DV051 with windows XP media center Home
edition. It has plenty of space on HDD. I managed to get the daughter's
account cleaned up and files updated. I added Avast antivirus, cc cleaner,
lavasoft adaware 2007, spybot search and destroy, and spyblaster.
The 3 other accounts will not allow spybot search and destroy or IR 7 to
install. The second account seems to be cleaned up but the last 2 haven't
been scanned entirely.
All three give the following error message:
Error creating registry Key.
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.disabled
RegCreateEXfailed;code5
I looked in the registry but was unable to find this .\disabled key.
I am going to do some more scanning with on line scanners and see if I find
anything. I tried Root Revealer but I got several things in the account
which is good and I don't trust Root revealer as it always give 2
consistent errors.
Any ideas would be appreciated. TIA

 

[Guest]

Have you Checked the Permissions for that Regsitry Key

Right Click > Properties

 

[tango]

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Have you Checked the Permissions for that Regsitry Key

Right Click > Properties

If that key showed I would have checked it.

 

[Guest]

Please download SWReg from this page and save it somewhere you like.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~fstaal01/downloads-us.html

Launch Notepad, and copy/paste everything below into a new text file. Save
it as F_Reg.bat and save it in the same folder as where you saved SWReg.

***********Copy Text Below***************

@echo off
swreg.exe acl HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.disabled > perm.txt
notepad.exe perm.txt
del perm.txt


********Copy Text Above***************

Locate F_Reg.bat in that folder and double-click on it. It will open Notepad
with some text in it, please post that Here

 

[John John]

The key won't be there, the error shows that RegCreate failed to create
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.disabled. Perhaps you could verify the permissions
on HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT

John

 

[John John]

Solving setup errors by using the SubInACL tool to repair file and
registry permissions
http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2006/09/04/739820.aspx

John

 

[tango]

The key won't be there, the error shows that RegCreate failed to
create HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.disabled. Perhaps you could verify the
permissions on HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT

John

Actually the key does show up and the problem appears to be permissions.
Let me give some more info. The pc has 4 users which are all set up as
Administrators.
Under the account I was able to install Spybot the registry has the
following info under the .disable key:

Name Type Data
Default Reg_SZ SpybotSD.DisableFile

I have the same entry on my own pc which I have 2 user accounts and
Spybot loaded on both accounts.
I'm not sure how to get permissions for the other accounts. I tried
adding permissions for another account under the one which has Spybot but
I still got the access denied message. TIA

 

[tango]

I am cleaning up a relative's pc which was eat up with spyware and a
few Trojans. It is a Dell Dimension DV051 with windows XP media center
Home edition. It has plenty of space on HDD. I managed to get the
daughter's account cleaned up and files updated. I added Avast
antivirus, cc cleaner, lavasoft adaware 2007, spybot search and
destroy, and spyblaster. The 3 other accounts will not allow spybot
search and destroy or IR 7 to install. The second account seems to be
cleaned up but the last 2 haven't been scanned entirely.
All three give the following error message:
Error creating registry Key.
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.disabled
RegCreateEXfailed;code5
I looked in the registry but was unable to find this .\disabled key.
I am going to do some more scanning with on line scanners and see if I
find anything. I tried Root Revealer but I got several things in the
account which is good and I don't trust Root revealer as it always
give 2 consistent errors.
Any ideas would be appreciated. TIA

I finally got tired of chasing this problem and having registry keys
dissappear, so I uninstalled Spybot and manually cleaned the registry.
Then I was able to install it under a different user but could not
install it under the user I previously intalled it under.
Conclusion, maybe it is not intended to be installed on multiple users
although this flys in the face of my own PC.
The main users are 2 teenagers, one in HS and the other in college so it
will probably need to be recleaned every 6 months anyway.
Thanks to all who responded.