Registry and Task Manager close Automatically

[Kevin]

Hello,

Everytime i open the registry editor, or task manager, it
closes immediately.
Either:
Start\run: regedit or regedt32
Start\run: taskmgr.exe or Ctrl Alt Del\Task Manager

They open, but close immediately so i get about a 1/2
second look ...

I've got SP1a for XP, all the latest patches, including
823890 (for MSBlast), and have scanned for viruses...

App and sys logs are clean ...

Any ideas what is wrong?

Thanks in advance!
Kevin

 

[Frank]

Have you checked your error log in the admin services in the control panel
to see what type of error is occuring.
Have you also rebooted since this is happening?
If it has just started recently have you tried a system restore?

 

[Kevin]

Dang... it must be a virus ... i made a copy of
taskmgr.exe and renamed it to taskmgr1.exe .. it opens
and works fine ... shoot ... i'll take a look at the
information you provided...

Thanks for the responses!

 

[Larry Samuels MS-MVP XP \(Shell/User\)]

Info on removing Spybot at:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.spybot.worm.html

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[Kevin]

It definitely was a virus.

I made a copy of taskmgr.exe and renamed it. I then
opened task manager, and found a bogus process
called "svchst.exe" trying to look like "svchost.exe"...
after i killed that task everything started working. So i
deleted the file, removed it from start and the run key
in the registry... now it's all working.

Thanks for the help!!

 

[Kelly]

Good work, Doug. Glad you have it sorted, Kevin.

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