no desktop after log in

[BH]

Win2K machines, SP3 on all. They boot to the welcome
screen, and users can enter their passwords and log in.
However, they never get to a desktop; they see the blank
screen with an hourglass cursor in front of it,
indefinitely.

If they ctrl-alt-del again and choose "logoff," they
breifly see errors regarding "mobsync" and "svchosting"
flash by, then they're back to the welcome screen. Note:
that's "svchosting," not "svchost." I suspect a virus,
but I'm not getting anywhere with it yet.

Any suggestions? Does anyone recognize "svchosting" as a
legit part of Win2k?

 

[Neil Shaw]

Win2K machines, SP3 on all. They boot to the welcome
screen, and users can enter their passwords and log in.
However, they never get to a desktop; they see the blank
screen with an hourglass cursor in front of it,
indefinitely.

If they ctrl-alt-del again and choose "logoff," they
breifly see errors regarding "mobsync" and "svchosting"
flash by, then they're back to the welcome screen. Note:
that's "svchosting," not "svchost." I suspect a virus,
but I'm not getting anywhere with it yet.

Any suggestions? Does anyone recognize "svchosting" as a
legit part of Win2k?

Quick google search leads to:
http://computercops.biz/postlite62177-svchosting.html
Apparantly it's part of a new cariant of the SDBot virus

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
Quick google search leads to:
http://computercops.biz/postlite62177-svchosting.html
Apparantly it's part of a new cariant of the SDBot virus
.

Thanks- I did a google and all I got was stuff from
service hosting companies...