Over the past weeks on my older Windows XP machine:
- I've had frequent re-infections of some virus or Trojan that resets my IE
home page, disables Task Manager, and blocks my access to System Restore.
- Several times each day, I run AdAware, Spybot, and my virus program (Panda)
to remove identified infections and spyware.
- I read where disabling System Restore and then running a virus scan would
clean out any virus strands that were inadvertently being backed-up with each
shutdown/startup cycle.
- My virus and spyware programs sometime identify Services.exe and
Winlogon.exe as viruses. When this happens, these files are referenced as being
in located in the C:Windowsinetdata sub-directory (which is not where they
should be).
Did I royally screw things up by disabling System Restore? I understand by
doing this, I erased all existing restore points so that wouldn't surprise
me.
First let me say this...
YIKES!
You've got a serious infection here. In all honesty, I'm not sure the
patient will survive. But let's run through some options.
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