Taskmgr unable to delete

[BoroChris]

Hi,

I am in the middle of battling a number of viruses on a PC but one
issue has me stumped and I can't find it highlighted anywhere.

Originally taskmanager was diabled but I got around that via the
registry however now taskmgr has all the processes greyed out and I
cannot kill any processes.

I will probably use taskkil to overcome this but has anyone seen this
behaviour before and know how to fix it?

This even occurs in safe mode where I have a couple of rogue iexplore
running that need killing prior to running fixes.

 

[John]

I am in the middle of battling a number of viruses on a PC but one
issue has me stumped and I can't find it highlighted anywhere.
Originally taskmanager was diabled but I got around that via the
registry however now taskmgr has all the processes greyed out and I
cannot kill any processes.

Re enable Windows Task Manager in XP and 2000
http://techrepublic.com.com/5102-6270-1054840.html
Demystifying the Windows Registry
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/Demystifying_the_Windows_Registry-tut74.html
Don't Fear the Registry
http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/658

Sounds like you will need to use HJThis.
Important: Create a specific folder on your hard drive called
HijackThis to keep its backups.
You can do this by going to My Computer (Windows key+e) then double
click on C: then right click and select New then Folder and name it
HijackThis. Download and unzip HijackThis.exe into this folder.
http://www.merijn.org/downloads.html Or, http://tomcoyote.com/hjt/
If possible run HJT in Normal mode ( not Safe ) with all your normal
startup's working.
HijackThis Tutorial - How to Analyse your own log
http://spywarewarrior.com/viewtopic.php?t=3624
HijackThis log file analysis ( online )
http://hijackthis.de/index.php?langselect=english
Or,
http://startup.networktechs.com/page-68.html
http://hjt.iamnotageek.com

 

[BoroChris]

BoroChris wrote:
I am in the middle of battling a number of viruses on a PC but one
issue has me stumped and I can't find it highlighted anywhere.
Originally taskmanager was diabled but I got around that via the
registry however now taskmgr has all the processes greyed out and I
cannot kill any processes.

Re enable Windows Task Manager in XP and 2000
http://techrepublic.com.com/5102-6270-1054840.html

Thanks but like I said I have already reenabled it in the registry an
do have it running. What I can't figure out is why I cannot stop an
processes using it. All of the process list is greyed out but thi
doesnt stop me selecting processing however when i try to kill them
get the message access denied.

AVG resident also gets access denied when trying to clear sku16.dl
from the run stack