Error on Start Up

[Guest John G.]

removed trojan and malware virus with Spybot and AVG. Everything is fine

except a one time start up error message. Module cannot be found.

C/Windows/System32/sqtwcwnc.dll How do I get rid of it?

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John G.

[Guest Elmo]

Re: Error on Start Up

 

John G. wrote:

> Removed trojan and virus with Spybot and AVG. Everything is fine

> except a one-time start up error message. "Module cannot be found."

> C:\Windows\System32\sqtwcwnc.dll How do I get rid of it?

 

Click Start, Run, type REGEDIT, click OK. Press the Home key, press F3,

type the name of the file into the search pane. Click "Find Next", and

when located, delete the reference to the file. Press F3 to continue

the search.

 

You can click File, Export, and save the entry to the Desktop. If you

remove it and there's a problem, double-click the .reg file you exported

to the Desktop and it'll be added to the registry again. You can create

a restore point before editing the registry too.

 

You could click Start, Run, type MSCONFIG, click OK, click the StartUp

tab, and deselect the item(s). When you restart the computer, you will

be warned that you're running in the Diagnostic mode; click to not alert

you again, and OK out. You won't see the message again. But I think

it's best to just remove the references from the registry.

 

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Joe =o)

[Guest Gerry]

Re: Error on Start Up

 

John

 

File sqtwcwnc.dll looks as though it has a random generated name and a

Google search gets no results. It therefore could be either part of a

continuing malware infestation or a remnant of an infestation, which has

been left over from a past infestation.

 

If it is an orphan start up entry from a past infestation these are best

removed using Autoruns (freeware). Autoruns lists additional start-up

items to those you can see in msconfig.

 

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/Autoruns.mspx

 

With Autoruns you can uncheck an item, which disables it from starting,

or you can can right click an item and then delete it. If you uncheck

you can recheck to re-enable the item. It is a much safer approach than

editing the Registry. Another useful feature of the programme is that

you can right click an item and select Search Online to get information

about the item selected.

 

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Hope this helps.

 

Gerry

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John G. wrote:

> removed trojan and malware virus with Spybot and AVG. Everything is

> fine except a one time start up error message. Module cannot be found.

> C/Windows/System32/sqtwcwnc.dll How do I get rid of it?

[Guest ju.c]

Re: Error on Start Up

 

Download HijackThis, run it and remove anything that has the file name "sqtwcwnc.dll"

 

Trend Micro HijackThis 2.0.2 800 KB

http://www.trendsecure.com/portal/en-US/tools/security_tools/hijackthis/download

 

 

ju.c

 

 

"John G." <JohnG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> removed trojan and malware virus with Spybot and AVG. Everything is fine

> except a one time start up error message. Module cannot be found.

> C/Windows/System32/sqtwcwnc.dll How do I get rid of it?

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> John G.

[Guest nass]

RE: Error on Start Up

 

 

 

"John G." wrote:

> removed trojan and malware virus with Spybot and AVG. Everything is fine

> except a one time start up error message. Module cannot be found.

> C/Windows/System32/sqtwcwnc.dll How do I get rid of it?

> --

> John G.

 

 

Go through these Cleaning steps:

1... First, try to clean up your caches, Internet files and delete cookies

by doing this:

Click Start >> Control Panel >> Double click Network and Internet

Connections >> Double click Internet Options.

On the IE properties windows you will see these Tabs:

General | Security | Privacy | Content | Connections | Programs |

Advanced

Under General Tab clear your History, Internet Files and Cookies.

Then click on Advanced tab and scroll down to under the Browsing Option:

[&] Browsing

[ ] Enable Third-Party browser extensions (Req Rest) uncheck this box.

Then click on Programs Tab and click Manage Add-Ons and Disable all non

Verified Add-Ons (You should Renable them later one-by-one and see the

culprit and update it or remove it.

How to manage Add-Ons:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883256

Scan for malware from here:

http://www.malwarebytes.org/rr-update/rr-free-setup.exe

http://onecare.live.com/site/en-gb/default.htm?s_cid=sah

http://onecare.live.com/standard/en-gb/default.htm

 

Run disk clean up on your Drive.

You can download this tool o run clean up:

http://www.ccleaner.com/download/builds/downloading-slim

 

You can download this tool "AutoRuns for Windows"

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

And remove the entry from here:

 

Locate this key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run = look in

the right pane/window and remove the entry for it

"C:\windows\system32\sqtwcwnc.dll".

 

Run disk cleanup and defrag in safe mode. Then run this command:

sfc /scannow

HTH.

nass

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