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From: Richard Oliver on 21 Jan 2010 06:23

Thank you for your help Dave---
I finally could not get into the drive at all--not even the recovery
disk worked,so I ran Linux Ubuntu from dikk and managed to retrieve some
of the important files.
When that is complete I will format the drive and reload whatever is
necessary.
Kindes regards,Richard



On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:37:49 -0500, "David H. Lipman"
<DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote:

>From: "Richard Oliver" <R.Oliver(a)Spam.co.za>
>
>| A friends computer running Win XP Home has been infected by numerous
>| virus /malware etc.
>| I have run several antivirus programs such as Trend Micro ,Antivir and
>| Malware Bytes.
>| The machine now appears to be clean but will not start in Safe
>| mode,there is no Run mode nor msconfig available.
>| There is a popup on startup looking for ryr.exe which a search on Google
>| reveals as malware.
>| I would appreciate some help in getting this system back in good order
>| again.
>| Regards,Richard
>
>Find the place the loads ryr.exe and remove it so the OS no longer wants to load it.
>
>What do you mean no "Run mode " ?
>There is no "Run" as a statup item ?
>
>As for the no Safe Mode, it could be the load sequence to load Safe Mode has been too
>corrupted to work anymore.

From: David H. Lipman on 21 Jan 2010 06:29
From: "Richard Oliver" <R.Oliver(a)Spam.co.za>


| Thank you for your help Dave---
| I finally could not get into the drive at all--not even the recovery
| disk worked,so I ran Linux Ubuntu from dikk and managed to retrieve some
| of the important files.
| When that is complete I will format the drive and reload whatever is
| necessary.
| Kindes regards,Richard


OK -- Good luck with it.


--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp


From: Richard Oliver on 22 Jan 2010 01:42
Thankfully I do not usually receive snide remarks from people and I do
not believe in wasting time on these things but----
I am an 81 yr old retired Mech Engineer who tries to keep his mind
going by helping people (mostly friends and family) who have computer
problems and when I run into some new problem I am fortunate to be able
to ask for help from people like the ones that kindly responded to this
query.
And my grateful thanks to them all ---I consider them too as "friends".
Regards ,Richard

On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:33:07 GMT, Dustin Cook
<bughunter.dustin(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>Richard Oliver <R.Oliver(a)Spam.co.za> wrote in
>news:lq8dl5hc89e46j9tcjc9l94ceck1d8lpp1(a)4ax.com:
>
>> A friends computer running Win XP Home has been infected by numerous
>> virus /malware etc.
>> I have run several antivirus programs such as Trend Micro ,Antivir
>> and Malware Bytes.
>> The machine now appears to be clean but will not start in Safe
>> mode,there is no Run mode nor msconfig available.
>> There is a popup on startup looking for ryr.exe which a search on
>> Google reveals as malware.
>> I would appreciate some help in getting this system back in good order
>> again.
>> Regards,Richard
>>
>
>You sure do run across alot of friends or relatives suddenly in need of
>your assistance. :) Have you tried checking the mbam forums? They do
>offer assistance. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt for now and
>assume you really are just a normal user trying to help your friends,
>and not some wannabe technician :)

From: "nobody >" on 22 Jan 2010 03:03
Richard Oliver wrote:
> Thankfully I do not usually receive snide remarks from people and I do
> not believe in wasting time on these things but----
> I am an 81 yr old retired Mech Engineer who tries to keep his mind
> going by helping people (mostly friends and family) who have computer
> problems and when I run into some new problem I am fortunate to be able
> to ask for help from people like the ones that kindly responded to this
> query.
> And my grateful thanks to them all ---I consider them too as "friends".
> Regards ,Richard

*Most* people on *most* newsgroups are good people. alt.comp.anti-virus
is like that. You've probably spotted the few bad apples that show up here..
From: The Central Scrutinizer on 24 Jan 2010 02:32
"Richard Oliver" <R.Oliver(a)Spam.co.za> wrote in message
news:anhil5p3pn42d6o5vp7a0f0e6t5mqas6lv(a)4ax.com...
> Thankfully I do not usually receive snide remarks from people and I do
> not believe in wasting time on these things but----
> I am an 81 yr old retired Mech Engineer who tries to keep his mind
> going by helping people (mostly friends and family) who have computer
> problems and when I run into some new problem I am fortunate to be able
> to ask for help from people like the ones that kindly responded to this
> query.

In that case, nothing wrong with a good old fashioned wipe and
reinstall ;-)

> And my grateful thanks to them all ---I consider them too as "friends".
> Regards ,Richard
>
> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:33:07 GMT, Dustin Cook
> <bughunter.dustin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Richard Oliver <R.Oliver(a)Spam.co.za> wrote in
>>news:lq8dl5hc89e46j9tcjc9l94ceck1d8lpp1(a)4ax.com:
>>
>>> A friends computer running Win XP Home has been infected by numerous
>>> virus /malware etc.
>>> I have run several antivirus programs such as Trend Micro ,Antivir
>>> and Malware Bytes.
>>> The machine now appears to be clean but will not start in Safe
>>> mode,there is no Run mode nor msconfig available.
>>> There is a popup on startup looking for ryr.exe which a search on
>>> Google reveals as malware.
>>> I would appreciate some help in getting this system back in good order
>>> again.
>>> Regards,Richard
>>>
>>
>>You sure do run across alot of friends or relatives suddenly in need of
>>your assistance. :) Have you tried checking the mbam forums? They do
>>offer assistance. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt for now and
>>assume you really are just a normal user trying to help your friends,
>>and not some wannabe technician :)
>
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