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Aaron
Hello All,
Working on a very disturbed system this week, and after running every thing
I could think of, I'm here.
Back ground... Older Dell system, running XP Pro. Hasn't ran since Febuary
when the network adapater quick working. After my first initial look at the
system, someone put some cheap anti-virus program on the system and it
quaranteened the svchost file... rpc won't load.. you know the rest. Well
that was great, got a new svchost installed, but nothing was starting. All
kinds of services were no longer listed in the registry. Fun for me. Loaded
Ultimate boot cd for Windows, grabed an older version of the registry files,
copied them into the system32\Config, Rebooted, every thing came up execpt
one thing..... Explorer.exe. As soon as you try to start it by hand it quits
immedialy and DOES NOT write an event to the event log. No error code,
nothing. So, using the task manager, still was able to load Kaspersky Anti
Virus, removed 2568 items... Yes no joke, a lot of them are the Vundo. Also
loaded Counterspy, Maleware Bytes, and Spybot, each program removed tons of
crap from the sytem. However still no Explorer.exe. Renamed the file to
something else, nothing, renamed again, and changed shell entry in registry
to the new name, nothing, it still won't run. All scanners are showing the
system as being clean. Ran a XP repair (with SP3 slipstreamed) twice, yes
twice, and still the shell will stay on. Anyone got any ideas, besides
Formating and starting over?
Thanks,
Aaron
Working on a very disturbed system this week, and after running every thing
I could think of, I'm here.
Back ground... Older Dell system, running XP Pro. Hasn't ran since Febuary
when the network adapater quick working. After my first initial look at the
system, someone put some cheap anti-virus program on the system and it
quaranteened the svchost file... rpc won't load.. you know the rest. Well
that was great, got a new svchost installed, but nothing was starting. All
kinds of services were no longer listed in the registry. Fun for me. Loaded
Ultimate boot cd for Windows, grabed an older version of the registry files,
copied them into the system32\Config, Rebooted, every thing came up execpt
one thing..... Explorer.exe. As soon as you try to start it by hand it quits
immedialy and DOES NOT write an event to the event log. No error code,
nothing. So, using the task manager, still was able to load Kaspersky Anti
Virus, removed 2568 items... Yes no joke, a lot of them are the Vundo. Also
loaded Counterspy, Maleware Bytes, and Spybot, each program removed tons of
crap from the sytem. However still no Explorer.exe. Renamed the file to
something else, nothing, renamed again, and changed shell entry in registry
to the new name, nothing, it still won't run. All scanners are showing the
system as being clean. Ran a XP repair (with SP3 slipstreamed) twice, yes
twice, and still the shell will stay on. Anyone got any ideas, besides
Formating and starting over?
Thanks,
Aaron
