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Help with XP (possibly infected with hacktool.rootkit)
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Norton detected hacktool.rootkit and I was able to remove it and I believe the infected files as well, and now when I go to log in it makes the windows sound like it does when you successfully log in then it immediatley logs me out.
I've looked at microsoft.com and searched this website but I didn't see any relevant information.
Can someone help?
I've looked at microsoft.com and searched this website but I didn't see any relevant information.
Can someone help?
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Originally Posted by hiroshiri
Norton detected hacktool.rootkit and I was able to remove it and I believe the infected files as well, and now when I go to log in it makes the windows sound like it does when you successfully log in then it immediatley logs me out.
I've looked at microsoft.com and searched this website but I didn't see any relevant information.
Can someone help?
Kansas City's real Computer Doctor
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Originally Posted by kccomputerdr
Virus makers are smarter than your antivirus software, especially if you don't subscribe to the latest updates. If you don't want to pay money, go to www.free-av.com. Uninstall Norton & download the free Antivir. updates there are free
Uh, not sure if you read the post or not, but he cant log in to Windows. It logs him right out.
I believe I ran into this problem a while back and it turned out to be that a virus had gotten into my registry and change a key.
If you can get into the Administrator account in safe mode, open regedit and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Userinit
Check the value there and make sure it is set to C:\WINDOWS\system32\userinit.exe or c:\windows\explorer.exe
Also, just above that key, check the Shell key and make sure it says explorer.exe
If you cannot get in through safe mode and you have access to another computer to burn a disk, there are several options to modify the registry, such as http://sourceforge.net/projects/austrumi
Let us know!
Cheers!
Soup
Ok, I tried to log in with safe mode and it does the same thing. It logs me in and then a second later it logs me out and says 'saving your settings' on the log in/out window.
Not sure what to do now?
Thanks for the help Soupy!
Not sure what to do now?
Thanks for the help Soupy!
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Originally Posted by hiroshiri
Ok, I tried to log in with safe mode and it does the same thing. It logs me in and then a second later it logs me out and says 'saving your settings' on the log in/out window.
Not sure what to do now?
Thanks for the help Soupy!
Kansas City's real Computer Doctor
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