Regedit

[Henk]

REGEDIT is no longer working on my system.
I have tried the gpedit.msc, but no luck in getting it to work.

Any help?

Henk.

 

[Don Phillipson]

REGEDIT is no longer working on my system.
I have tried the gpedit.msc, but no luck in getting it to work.

Quickest solution may be to recopy from your instal
CD via SFC = System File Checker.

 

[Henk]

Quickest solution may be to recopy from your instal
CD via SFC = System File Checker.

Thanks for the advice. Will try that.

Henk.

 

[Gerry]

Henk

What are your anti-virus and anti-spyware arrangements?

Malware can target / disable system components. Are Task Manager, Event
Viewer and System Restore working. System Restore might get regedit
working again.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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[Henk]

Henk

What are your anti-virus and anti-spyware arrangements?

Malware can target / disable system components. Are Task Manager, Event
Viewer and System Restore working. System Restore might get regedit
working again.

Gerry,

All systems you mentioned can be accessed.

I had AVAST installed for more than a year and it somehow failed to
work. I removed it and tried to reinstall with no luck. Got hold of the
free version of AVG and installed that. Scanned the PC and it found a
few funnies, which I deleted. But still no luck using Regedit.

What is required for the System Restore option? Original CD?

Thanks,

Henk.

 

[Gerry]

Henk

http://bertk.mvps.org/index.html

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Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
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[Henk]

Henk

http://bertk.mvps.org/index.html

Just to report back - I found 180 malwares on my PC.
Had to repair XP and all is working again.

Henk.

 

[Gerry]

Henk

That's good news.

Looking back over the thread you only only mentioned an anti-virus
programmes. You need also to have an anti-spyware programme providing
real time protection. I use Spybot S & D (freeware) for this purpose.
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/ownmirrors1/index.html

For dealing with serious malware infestations:

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
1.36 -freeware (if you upgrade you pay).
http://www.download.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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[Twayne]

Henk

That's good news.

Looking back over the thread you only only mentioned an anti-virus
programmes. You need also to have an anti-spyware programme providing
real time protection. I use Spybot S & D (freeware) for this purpose.
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/ownmirrors1/index.html

Spybot isn't realtime unless there have been some changes recently.
It's anti-spyware and you have to run scans like the rest of them.
Perhaps you were thinking of (free) WinPatrol? That's realtime
protection and does an excellent job. Anything new that runs has to get
your permission the first time it runs. After that it remembers the
setting. Takes a few days to train it, then it's excellent protection.
It has myriad other capabilities too including control of services,
startups, delayed tasks, cookie management, etc. etc. etc..

For dealing with serious malware infestations:

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
1.36 -freeware (if you upgrade you pay).
http://www.download.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html

Add one more of your own choosing to that list, and you'll have a decent
arsenal. I've never had windows defender find anything, but Adaware
from lavasoft works well in conjunction with spybot S & D. No single
application as yet finds all spyware/malware but a combination seems to
lend pretty good protection.

HTH,

Twayne`

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Spybot isn't realtime unless there have been some changes recently.
It's anti-spyware and you have to run scans like the rest of them.

That's not Quite correct. Spybot S&D has an optional "immunization"
feature that runs in the background and will warn the user of any
changes to the registry, and ask whether or not to permit the change.


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killed a great many philosophers.
~ Denis Diderot

 

[Gerry]

Bruce

I was thinking about the Tea Timer component.


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[Twayne]

That's not Quite correct. Spybot S&D has an optional "immunization"
feature that runs in the background and will warn the user of any
changes to the registry, and ask whether or not to permit the change.

Mmm, you're right, and that's useful, but it's not what's generally
considered realtime w/r to network connections. You're right though.
And then there's the teatimer add on too but about the same general
thing IMO.

Good catch, clarification, actually.

Twayne

 

[Henk]

Henk

That's good news.

Looking back over the thread you only only mentioned an anti-virus
programmes. You need also to have an anti-spyware programme providing
real time protection. I use Spybot S & D (freeware) for this purpose.
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/ownmirrors1/index.html

For dealing with serious malware infestations:

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
1.36 -freeware (if you upgrade you pay).
http://www.download.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html

Gerry, the last one is what I used here. I have Adware installed, so
hopefully that will do the trick.

Henk.

 

[Gerry]

Henk

Malwarebytes is a much stronger player than Ad-Aware.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

[Twayne]

Gerry, the last one is what I used here. I have Adware installed, so
hopefully that will do the trick.

Henk.

In general, it takes more than one spyware scanner to get a reasonable
hit rate on the majority of the possibilities. No single program to
date can discover and eradicate all of them as they each have their own
strengths and weaknesses. Whichever one addresses the most numerous
ones floating around the 'net generally are considered the better ones,
but like anything else, time changes things and next month another
program may well have the limelight.
AMB is decent, as is Spybot S&D, AdaWare, SpywareGuard and a few
others all work well. IME Windows Defender never found anything so I
never even bother with it anymore. I'm sure others will happily provide
the contents of their own arsenals of malware detectors too; there are
actualy quite a few good ones. I no longer use AMB either but I do
still use all the others and a couple more not listed too, if I'm
suspicious I may have picked something up. Fortunately I seldom see any
of that type of crap anymore.

BTW for Adaware, their latest edition in case you aren't using it, seems
to be hitting the sweet spot for a lot of things around here, in my case
at least. It's a case of ymmv though; everyone has a different set of
problems.
IMO one of the best protections schemes is the realtime protection of
WinPatrol. It's worth reading about if nothing else and has a powerful
set of tools in addition. One thing it does is learn every program on
your machine when you install it and should anything else want to run,
it alerts you first and gives you a chance to stop it in case it's
malware or anything that shouldn't be running at that time, so you can
go check it out and see why it was trying to run and what it is. It
also provides lookups for any programs you're not sure of; has a pretty
decent record in its database. Oh, and it's free. No connection with
it; I just like the application that's all.

HTH,

Twayne`

 

[Henk]

In general, it takes more than one spyware scanner to get a reasonable
hit rate on the majority of the possibilities. No single program to
date can discover and eradicate all of them as they each have their own
strengths and weaknesses. Whichever one addresses the most numerous
ones floating around the 'net generally are considered the better ones,
but like anything else, time changes things and next month another
program may well have the limelight.
AMB is decent, as is Spybot S&D, AdaWare, SpywareGuard and a few
others all work well. IME Windows Defender never found anything so I
never even bother with it anymore. I'm sure others will happily provide
the contents of their own arsenals of malware detectors too; there are
actualy quite a few good ones. I no longer use AMB either but I do
still use all the others and a couple more not listed too, if I'm
suspicious I may have picked something up. Fortunately I seldom see any
of that type of crap anymore.

BTW for Adaware, their latest edition in case you aren't using it, seems
to be hitting the sweet spot for a lot of things around here, in my case
at least. It's a case of ymmv though; everyone has a different set of
problems.
IMO one of the best protections schemes is the realtime protection of
WinPatrol. It's worth reading about if nothing else and has a powerful
set of tools in addition. One thing it does is learn every program on
your machine when you install it and should anything else want to run,
it alerts you first and gives you a chance to stop it in case it's
malware or anything that shouldn't be running at that time, so you can
go check it out and see why it was trying to run and what it is. It
also provides lookups for any programs you're not sure of; has a pretty
decent record in its database. Oh, and it's free. No connection with
it; I just like the application that's all.

HTH,

Twayne`

Twayne, thanks for your comments. In fact, I like to thank all who have
contributed to this. Much appriciated.

It appears, there are people wanting to do harm no matter what it takes
and I'm pleased to see that there are people like yourselves who help to
make our lives a bit tolerant with your experience.

Thanks again all.

Henk.