From: "yardee23" (e-mail address removed)
| everytime log on, I am getting Windowssc.exe loading and using 100%
of
| CPU.
| If you close it in taskmanager, goes away but then returns as soon
asyou try to click on
| any thing in control panel........"compressed zipfile invalid or
corrupted" message comes
| up, and when this does,windowssc.exe is again running and needs to be
closed again.
|
| I found this Windowssc.exe file in the Prefetch file or windows
andremoved them, but it
| still loads and can find no way of permantlygetting rid of it and
enabling me to continue
| with out these zip filemessages popping up and reloading this
program, which then goes
| anduses the whole CPU.!!
|
| Anyone know where it could be starting and if so, anyway to
permantlyremove it?.--
| yardee23
For non-viral malware...
Please download, install and update the following software...
* Ad-aware SE v1.06
http://www.lavasoft.de/
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
* SpyBot Search and Destroy v1.4
http://security.kolla.de/
After the software is updated, I suggest scanning the system in Safe
Mode.
I also suggest downloading, installing and updating BHODemon for any
Browser Helper Objects
that may be on the PC.
* BHODemon
http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm
For viral malware...
* Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe
It is a self-extracting ZIP file that contains the Kixtart Script
Interpreter {
http://kixtart.org Kixtart is CareWare } 4 batch files, 6 Kixtart
scripts, one Link
(.LNK) file, a PDF instruction file and two utilities; UNZIP.EXE and
WGET.EXE. It will
simplify the process of using; Sophos, Trend, Kaspersky and McAfee
Anti Virus Command
Line Scanners to remove viruses, Trojans and various other malware.
C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in
C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed
in Normal Mode.
This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web
site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and
Reboot the PC.
You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed
files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have
downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into
Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you
want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal
Mode.
When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more
comprehensive PDF help
file.
To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS
}
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close
Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }
NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE
to go through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.
* * * Please report back your results * * *
