Error message when trying to access programs in control panel.

[Bill Barclay]

I receive an error message when I try to access anything
in my control panel. This is what I get:"Access to
specified device,path, or file is denied."

This is on my home PC, running on Windows 98, no network,
only internet access via 56k dialup modem. I think I may
have been a victim of a trojan of some kind. It happened
right after a surfing session, it changed my default
internet start page and now it will not let me change it
back by blocking access to my internet options settings in
the control panel.

Any help and or suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!
Bill

 

[Van T. Dinh]

From an earlier post by Gary Miller in an earlier thread ...

***quote***

I believe that this is resulting in some type of new
internet trojan/malware attack. I think that you will find
that the root of the problem is that your Windows
"rundll32.exe" file and maybe your "rundll.exe" files have
been replaced with 0 byte files. It was the rundll32.exe on
the computer I had the problem with.

Use the Extract utility or the system file checker,
depending on your operating system, to replace them and I
think that you may solve the problem. That was the fix for
my problem machine with Win ME on it.

Do a virus and a 'SpyBot' scan afterwards to try and root
out the problem. I do not yet know what caused the problem,
only the cure.

***unquote***

BTW, this newsgroup is for Microsoft Access, a database application. If you
still have problems, post to one of the newsgroup for your version of
Windows.