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Guest bjdefelice
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XP Prof. - Yesterday my Symantec Antivirus software informed me that I had a

Trojan horse. There wer isntructions on how to remove, which I followed. 1.

Turn

off System Restore, Go to CMD prompt, type msconfig, go to boot.ini, change

boot to boot in Safe Mode, restart computer. This is where I ran into a

problem. When I rebooted in safe mode, I usually get a CNTRL, ALT, DLT

screen where I need to enter username and password. I entered mine and I get

an error, I can't get in now. Also tried changing username to

"administrator" leaving password blank. Still can't get in. Also can't boot

in normal mode. Attempted to by hitting F8 on start up. Will not start in

Noraml mode. Will not start in last know good config, etc. Can't get out of

Safe Mode. Need help Please.

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Guest Charlie Russel - MVP
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Re: Can't login to computer. can't get out of Safe Mode back to Norm.

 

I suggest you post this over on one of the security forums. A good place to

start would be: microsoft.public.security.homeusers. There are some really

_good_ people there who have experience resolving these things and should be

able to help.

 

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Charlie.

http://msmvps.com/xperts64

http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel

 

 

"bjdefelice" <bjdefelice@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:738D47EE-B040-4431-921E-0AA15D889BE4@microsoft.com...

> XP Prof. - Yesterday my Symantec Antivirus software informed me that I had

> a

> Trojan horse. There wer isntructions on how to remove, which I followed.

> 1.

> Turn

> off System Restore, Go to CMD prompt, type msconfig, go to boot.ini,

> change

> boot to boot in Safe Mode, restart computer. This is where I ran into a

> problem. When I rebooted in safe mode, I usually get a CNTRL, ALT, DLT

> screen where I need to enter username and password. I entered mine and I

> get

> an error, I can't get in now. Also tried changing username to

> "administrator" leaving password blank. Still can't get in. Also can't

> boot

> in normal mode. Attempted to by hitting F8 on start up. Will not start

> in

> Noraml mode. Will not start in last know good config, etc. Can't get out

> of

> Safe Mode. Need help Please.

>

Posted

RE: Can't login to computer. can't get out of Safe Mode back to Norm.

 

If no one comes up with a better idea I would suggest you to boot off your XP

x64 install CD, choose Install and later on (a couple of menues later) Repair.

That would not fix the Trojan horse issue but you would be back in business.

I would also uninstal Symantec AV and try a better one like Avast or the

others that have been supported in this NG.

Carlos

 

"bjdefelice" wrote:

> XP Prof. - Yesterday my Symantec Antivirus software informed me that I had a

> Trojan horse. There wer isntructions on how to remove, which I followed. 1.

> Turn

> off System Restore, Go to CMD prompt, type msconfig, go to boot.ini, change

> boot to boot in Safe Mode, restart computer. This is where I ran into a

> problem. When I rebooted in safe mode, I usually get a CNTRL, ALT, DLT

> screen where I need to enter username and password. I entered mine and I get

> an error, I can't get in now. Also tried changing username to

> "administrator" leaving password blank. Still can't get in. Also can't boot

> in normal mode. Attempted to by hitting F8 on start up. Will not start in

> Noraml mode. Will not start in last know good config, etc. Can't get out of

> Safe Mode. Need help Please.

>


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