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[email protected],
You do have a virus, probably more than one. Physically disconnect from the
internet, you machine is probably a zombie until you fix it.
To get a handle on msconfig again, boot in safe mode and then use windows
explorer to find msconfig.exe (for XP it will be within a Help folder),
right click it and select copy. Paste it to your desktop, rename it but keep
the ".exe" part, copy THAT, and paste it to where the original msconfig.exe
is at. You can do something similar with regedit. Now double-click that
renamed version of msconfig. Select Diagnostic mode, click ok, reboot
normally. In msconfig, start re-enabling things one at a time and then
rebooting after each until you notice a problem, disable the problem and
continue diagnostics. When everything is enabled again except for the
problems, uninstall your outdated antivirus checker, then go online to
grisoft.com and get their freeware AVG and install it (be sure to give a
valid email address, they send the activation code by email after you
respond to their verification email) and then physically disconnect from
internet again. Run AVG. Then go back online and update AVG, physically
disconnect from internet again and run AVG again. Go online again and get,
install, and update and then run Ad-aware6, Spybot Search & Destroy,
SpywareBlaster, and SpaywareGuard. After all that, turn off System Restore
and then immediately turn it back on; that will clear any virus in the
protected folder that an antivirus utility can not remove. Run all those
utilities one more time. Clear the system restore area again. Reboot. Do all
your updates (all of them).
If you can not get on internet then go get this utility via another machine
(unzipped, it will fit on floppy) and run it:
http://members.shaw.ca/techcd/VB_Projects/WinsockFix.zip