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  1. Hi guys and gals- i've been in a bit of a mess ever since i got infected with a trojan called "prorat". Anyway, my antivirus detected it, and removed it. Now i have to main, major problems. Luckily i managed to bring back my system restore and regedit. Unfortunatly- all my restore points were lost when it was disabled- thats one of my questions- How do you make backup system restore points? Anyway, after AVG removed the trojan, it looks like it didn't quite finish cleaning up- that is, im not infected, but now when i login, it hangs and i get the error message "Windows cannot find svchost.exe, to search for a file click start... bla bla bla. Anyway, i assure you my svchost is perfectly fine, my computer runs perfectly after that point. I assume that this is a file that the trojan requested to be started when i logged in. Second question- is there any way to remove this from the registry? That is- it has the name svchost.exe, the real file is just svchost. Third problem, definetly the worst and the one needing most attention- BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH :( Well- its weird, i get a thread/process ended uspespectadly one, i've zipped up and uploaded some of the most recent dumps. Thing is- safe mode works fine, and right now im typing this in NORMAL mode- the blue screen comes up when i login, but when i run a chkdsk, it fixes it! But as soon as i restart, i have the blue screen again. If i use system restore in safe mode to return to a time after a chkdsk- its fine, untill i restart. Another thing- my firewall is outpost, i use it because im a somewhat gamer, and i enjoy the low demands, and i find the user interface much nicer for me. Its broke- half of the files got deleted after a system restore for some reoson, im guessing it was the trojan, anyway, i couldant even proporly uninstall (or reinstall) it. I expect that if i can get this fixed, ill be able to use the firewall again, unfortunatly till then, as i dont have sp2, im naked to the internet :( Anyway seen as i main thing to sort out is the blue screen for now- heres the dumps. http://rapidshare.com/files/55767908/Blue_screen_of_death_dumps-_12th-_14th_of_september.rar.html
  2. I put a lot of faith in AVG. I find that even their free addition detects anything norton will, and of course, its so much more performance freindly
  3. Well, turns out that bugger of a trojan had disabled my system restore and regedit. Allthough this is no biggie. I Used the annitiative, went to my other computer and found the svchost.exe file, and came back to my pc. Anyway, looks like windows did the job it should do and recreated the file after i restarted anyway, so if anybody else gets this. simply try restarting. So my problem is sorted, i simply reinabled system restore and regedit. Im definetly going to be keeping a closer check on what AVG deletes in the future though. Thanks Anyway.
  4. My AV, (curretnly using AVG 7.5) Found a trojan in svchost.exe, and what did it do, but went and deleted the damn file. My antivirus has no backup, and yes, im considering a restore, but restoring to a point were i DO have a trojan sounds merely stupid to me. Either way, when i boot up now i get: Windows Cannot file svchost.exe Make sure you typed the file name correctly and, and then try again. To search.. bla bla bla. Anyway, the thing is, exactly the same thing happened me before on a previous computer, and i KNOW i fixed it without restoring or using the XP boot disc. (I dont have this on me at the moment, i hold little faith in the recovery console anyway) I was just wondering if anybody here had a fix. Thanks, if theres not, i guess im going to have to restore. Thanks for the help though.
  5. Your not going to find anywere that would even let you upload a copy of windows, despite it being 100% illigal, they'd take it down within muinites of it being uploaded, and they would most definetly have a crack at following your IP back and sending the Windows Men In Black after you :P Allthough, err, if you were wanting to share something like this, there are certian internet underground places called "torrents" (hint hint, google)
  6. I'm using XP, I'll take you up on the suggestion of sys restoring in safe mode, not thought of that, not looking forward to losing all mydamned things though :P Thanks for the help, and the error message i get after normal sys restore is: "Restoration Was Inconplete, Your System Could Not Be Restored To This Time, No Files Were Changed" "Try Another Restore Point" Oh yeh, b4 i forget, would a recovery console repair replace ie7 with ie6 (im aware it will roll xp back to service pack 1)
  7. Thanks for replying mate, as it happens i allready know about that, but even when you do run it, it's just the same uninstilation as the one from add/remove isn't it? (so it will do just the same) I apologize if it isn't; but i'm not going to try it because i don't feel like going to the effort of uninstalling then reinstalling... Cheers
  8. Bassiacly folkes, I installed IE7, But I've decided i don't need it on this pc, as it's a family one and IE7 just slows ya down, and the people who use it are more used to IE6, so what the heck. Now, as i always do i read the websites before i went and uninstalled... All was good, IE7 showed happily in my add/remove progs and it seemed 100% removable. So i removed it, it went about the process fine, not one error reported, then asked me to restart. I logged in and sat patiently for half a muinite to let itself prepare, then i noticed my IE icon hasn't changed back to the IE6 one. OK, so the icon didn't install, i fire up IE to check, and guess what? I'm sat staring at IE7... I looked back to add/remove progs, but nothings there! I tried to install ie6 via the instaler on microsofts website- It merely tells me i have a more recnet instilation, damnit... Anyway I went for it what the heck, ill sacrifice one of my fave games i uninstalled the other day, and did a sys restore. Guess what? Didn't work, merely got "restoration incomplete- nothing was changed" Tried reinstalling IE7 and repeating the process and exactly the same thing happened. Infact right now i'm posting this with a version of IE that doesant think it's IE7 and thinks it uninstalled itself, but at the same time IS.... Please Help! :P
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