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