Unable to delete registry key

[JPL]

I have a rogue registry key on my Windows XP SP3 PC:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Xanthic

I have no idea where it came from; I have never heard of Xanthic.

An attempt to delete it produces the error message:

Cannnot delete Xanthic: Error while deleting key.

Xanthic has just one sub-key. On right-clicking it the following error is
reported:

Cannot open {EAC0842F-9764-03DD-A0B6-5FFFB48AD6EB}: Error while opening key

How may I remove this registry entry?

 

[Tom Willett]

Did you Google for it?
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=o...q=0&aqi=g1&oq=Xanthic+mal&fp=1c443ffcb5a5cce1

:I have a rogue registry key on my Windows XP SP3 PC:
:
: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Xanthic
:
: I have no idea where it came from; I have never heard of Xanthic.
:
: An attempt to delete it produces the error message:
:
: Cannnot delete Xanthic: Error while deleting key.
:
: Xanthic has just one sub-key. On right-clicking it the following error is
: reported:
:
: Cannot open {EAC0842F-9764-03DD-A0B6-5FFFB48AD6EB}: Error while opening
key
:
: How may I remove this registry entry?

 

[John John - MVP]

Click on the parent key and grant yourself the necessary permissions to
access and delete the keys. (the {EAC0842F-9764-03DD-A0B6-5FFFB48AD6EB}
key is most likely inheriting permissions from its parent).

John

 

[Mike]

Did you Google for it?
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=o...q=0&aqi=g1&oq=Xanthic+mal&fp=1c443ffcb5a5cce1

:I have a rogue registry key on my Windows XP SP3 PC:
:
: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Xanthic
:
: I have no idea where it came from; I have never heard of Xanthic.
:
: An attempt to delete it produces the error message:
:
: Cannnot delete Xanthic: Error while deleting key.
:
: Xanthic has just one sub-key. On right-clicking it the following error
is
: reported:
:
: Cannot open {EAC0842F-9764-03DD-A0B6-5FFFB48AD6EB}: Error while opening
key
:
: How may I remove this registry entry?

You should be able to get shot of it in Safe Mode.
regards Mike

 

[JPL]

Safe Mode did not help.

You should be able to get shot of it in Safe Mode.
regards Mike


.

 

[JPL]

I had already tried this; it was not the problem.

 

[JPL]

Tom,

Thanks.

I had of course Googled for it, but without the malware tag, and found
nothing helpful.

From your search I found a link to an article suggesting the use of
Sysinternals RegDelNull.exe, and using this (RegDellNull
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Xanthic) it took only a few seconds to remove the rogue key.

I had not realised that RegEdit is unable to process keys containing nulls.

JPL