regedit

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Rich

I am using XP Home on a HP machine, the problem is each
time I try to use"regedit" or "control/alt/delete" the
window opens then closes after about 10 seconds. Any
suggestions?
 
I found that doesn't work.

I fixed my laptop last night... I found a setting in the
registry for a "winsock2 driver" and from what I know this
isn't needed so I deleted that key and searched the
registry and found the .exe file hidden all over.
The .exe file I had was vga4r32 (or something similar) but
from what others are saying in posting's I've read last
night and today this file has a variable name. It's a
variant of the W32/Spybot worm, spread by Kazaa, however
everything I read about this worm wasn't true on my
systems and actually the hive below wasn't always present
and the location below.

I found it at:
Locate the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE entries:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Winsock2
driver

It was also found at:
Locate the HKEY_LOCAL_USER entries:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Winsock2
driver

Search the hard drive for the .exe associated with the
registry key and delete is as well.

Try this site
http://www.symantec.co.jp/avcenter/venc/data/w32.spybot.dr.
html
 
Hi Robert,

That edit removes the winsock2 entry. You mention HKEY_LOCAL_USER. There
is no such hive.

Did you perhaps mean HKEY_USERS or HKEY_CURRENT_USER? Both entries would
mirror, if so.

What was the name of the exe found and where? Spybot adds plenty more
entries to what you have mentioned that needs removing.

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