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From: undisclosed on 27 Jun 2010 11:56

I searched the Internet what to do about the problem on the subject, and
one forum said that this is caused by removing viruses with McAfee
anti-virus (which I did). They suggested to fix that through msconfig
but the msconfig doesn't open.
I went to a forum that gave solutions for downloading msconfig but they
don't work.
I started XP in the save mode and Run but still no msconfig.
Another forum said to download an alternative msconfig which sits on
the control board, but that also didn't work.
I tried the suggestion to type in Run sfc /scannow and insert the XP
disk but also no result. Anyone more suggestions?


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Grytsje
From: Elmo on 27 Jun 2010 13:11
undisclosed wrote:
> I searched the Internet what to do about the problem on the subject, and
> one forum said that this is caused by removing viruses with McAfee
> anti-virus (which I did). They suggested to fix that through msconfig
> but the msconfig doesn't open.
> I went to a forum that gave solutions for downloading msconfig but they
> don't work.
> I started XP in the save mode and Run but still no msconfig.
> Another forum said to download an alternative msconfig which sits on
> the control board, but that also didn't work.
> I tried the suggestion to type in Run sfc /scannow and insert the XP
> disk but also no result. Anyone more suggestions?

You may be infected. Run these:

Malwarebytes© Corporation
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam/program/mbam-setup.exe

SuperAntispyware
http://www.superantispyware.com/superantispywarefreevspro.html

If you still get error messages, download this Avira Antivir Rescue
System program which will burn a CD image to a blank CD. It's updated a
few times per day. Insert the CD into the damaged machine and let it do
a scan of your system. Before starting the scan, select "Configuration"
and set to repair or rename the infected files. Sometimes your machine
won't restart after such a repair process, so you might want to save
needed files to another system before using this. If you can't, then
you can move the hard drive to another machine to copy needed files.
You can do that before, or after this scan.

http://www.free-av.com/en/tools/12/avira_antivir_rescue_system.html

And AVG now has a Rescue CD that's free. They also have a free USB
download that should work on newer systems that can boot from a USB
device. Get them here:

http://www.avg.com/us-en/avg-rescue-cd

You can try some of the CD's mentioned at the following site.
BitDefender was my favorite, but if the infected machine can't connect
to the internet to get updates, Avira comes with current virus
definitions. Also, some of these just won't run on some systems,
perhaps because there's no drivers available for some system devices,
motherboard, graphics card, etc. So try a few of these till you find
one that works:

Burn BitDefender, or another program listed at the link below, to a CD
(using a working machine) and test the infected machine with it.
BitDefender also has a Rootkit checker on the Linux Desktop; run it if
you think that's the problem:

http://www.techmixer.com/free-bootable-antivirus-rescue-cds-download-list/

Download the executable rather than the .iso image, if one is available,
(though no .exe is available for BitDefender).

After the scan is run, if you elect to quarantine files, they're
quarantined to RAM and lost after you reboot. You'll need to copy any
quarantined files to the hard drive, a thumb drive or elsewhere before
exiting.

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Joe =o)
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