Swen Recovery - Can Not Find . . .

[Walter Wood]

A friend of mine got infected with the swen virus on his WinXP Home system
and I get to fix it. The system boots both in Safe and regular mode.

I have been able to remove the virus using the Symantec removal tool but the
system but it did not fix the registry and the system is still not right.

I cannot choose properties for My Computer. When I try and run a program
inlcuding System Restore and items in the Control Panel I get a message that
says "Can not find rundll32.exe. Make sure you typed the name correctly. .
.." FWIW the icon for rundll32.exe is a plain white icon although the
properties tab looks normal.

I tried to run some a reg utilities that restores these associations and but
had to re-associate ref files with regedit. Even after doing this I get a
message "Cannot import showerror - Error opening the file. There may be a
disk or system file error."

Any suggestions other than wiping out the HD and reinstall everything?

TIA
Walter

 

[Guest]

I've found that not formating and simply reinstalling xp
seems to fix quirky things

 

[Kelly]

Hi Walter,

Try the remover again. It should correct these issues.

It can be gained from line 280 (right hand side)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

/top10faqs.htm