Task Manager Help!

[loria]

I have the blasterworm virus on my Windows XP and
according the the Symantec directions to end the worm
process I should be able to hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete to get to
my Task Manager, but when I do this, it pops up for a
second & goes away. What can I do to make it stay up? or
is there another way to bring it up?

 

[loria]

My computer kept rebooting the first of the week & I
finally got everything cleaned up-but today when logging
on "winlogin.exe" not found came up. After reading the
directions again from symantec.com, I was supposed to go
under Task Manager to look for nstask32.exe or
winlogin.exe. But when I try to do Ctrl+Alt+Delete the
Task Manager Window pops up for a second and goes away.
It doesn't stay up long enough for me to click the
Processes tab on it. Is there another way? Help!

 

[Steve]

Goto this site and run the scanner. I and same problem.
It found a trojan on my system that Symantec doesn't find.

http://housecall.antivirus.com/housecall/start_corp

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

Yon,

To work around the virus, open a command prompt and enter the following
commands:

COPY C:\Windows\System32\Taskmgr.exe C:\Windows\System32\Taskmgr1.exe
COPY C:\Windows\Regedit.exe C:\Windows\Regedit.com
COPY C:\WINDOWS\PCHealth\HelpCtr\Binaries\MSCONFIG.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\PCHealth\HelpCtr\Binaries\MSCONFIG1.EXE

Then use the new file names, MSCONFIG1.EXE, Taskmgr1.EXE and REGEDIT.COM to
run these utilities. Then see www.kellys-korner-xp.com, Line 257, Left
column for a small VB Script utility that will remove all currently known
variants of MSBlaster and a couple of the viruses (at least temporarily)
that can piggyback in with Blaster.

 

[Yon Levins]

Good site!
Found a virus on my PC Mcafee didn't find.

Yon