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A very useful info Raymond. Good job.

If the computer has been so heavily compromised, why not just recover personal data and format it, it sounds like windows took a hammering and what is left of the install.

Friends, The worm Win32/Parite does the same thing. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Thanks

i am loading the nortan anti virus 2006 trial. i want to update the nortan antivirus & downloding of nortan 2008 nortan plz help me.

Wow! This article is pretty good also. :)
One thing: If CMD.exe regedit.exe and taskman.exe are all deleted/modified so they won’t work… Then how would you do it? My hypothesys would be to get a friend to either copy his cmd, regedit, and taskman to a floppy or usb stick and give it to you to boot up in safe mode to copy the file to the correct folder then hit Ctrl+Shift+Esc and hold in ctrl and go to File and select New task then you can do everything stated in the article, but with a different cmd.exe.

good one!

That trick to load command prompt from task manager is awesome!
Several years ago studying cmd I realized the possibility to compromise the system by simply changing associations. Although I only tested it on virtual machine. This thing is still very funny for me! :D
exefile value may also be changed so if
[b]assoc.exe=exefile[/b]
does not help, go ahead and do
[b]ftype exefile=”%1″ %*[/b]

URI — ?

I am here because on Leo Leporte’s radio “Show Notes” for 01-13-08 it is suggested the the viewer — take a look at your pages. You seem to have much goo information, but I would like to print it so that I can make sure that I do things correctly and cover all bases. It is a laborious process, but if there are truely some solutions to problems, it pays to follow the process. But, I find, I can’t PRINT your data. It just makes my machine run wild and a pop-up box comes upa and says that I have run out of memory. Not good.

I would really like to access the information that you offer and see if it would make a difference.

I have a Dell 3000 computer with Windows XP running. Adverse things have been happening over the past 2 1/2+ years that I have owned this computer, and since it was new. But, starting in Sep 07 when my Norton security program System Works 2007 with virus protection, The Premier Edition, was expiring; I sought to replace it with as good or better protection. The most robust thing available I could find then — At Costco — etc. was Norton 360. — a new version of their protection which judging by their ratings chart on the box — HAD EVERYTHING.

At the end of the show notes for 01-13-08 Leo says dump it [Norton 360] and that is what I aim to do. It constantly wants back-ups and I am barely geared to do that with just CD’s presently, but working on other solutions. But, I suspect that because of my lack of quickly coupling up to their mode of operating — Troublesome stuff has gotten into my otherwise fairly well running computer. Before Sep 07 we were having a conflict with Zone Alarm and Norton I later have deduced or learned. The two programs were duking it out on my screen. Nulling one or the others ACTIVE condition and giving me notices and choices via pop-up boxes. Very annoying, to say the least. I have since removed Zone Alarm which my son advocated — the free version.

So that problem went away, but a BIG one came up soon thereafter in place of it. The “Active Destkop Recovery” crud IMPLANTED it’s stuff on my desktop and probably has and is perculating through my computer files. This happened soom after I did the install of Norton 360, having made a despert call to Symantec.

You know the next part, I was talking to a very nice person in India for over two hours. And a few days later my case was reopened when they called back to confirm that everything was A okay. That was nice but, on the first call as well as the second call I had to give permission for them to take control of my computer — which I did.

Almost immediately he became aware that he was looking at a Dell Computer Desktop. I was in conversation with him continually via the telephone. At some point, he had me go into some computer control box on screen and click off of the DELL DESKTOP wallpaper and then TYPE IN THE WORDS, in a box: “ABOUTBLANK”. I don’t know for sure what that does OR did, but I think it had something to do with the arrival later of the ACTIVE DESKTOP RECOVERY — garbage. This can be seen via Google — “Fixing the Active Desktop Recovery Problem on Flickr -Photo Sharing…”. I filled up a binder searching for ways to attack the problem CORRECTLY. I’m still searching, but the Desk Top Recovery problem has seem to have gone away after I reduced the activity of POP-UPS selecting a Permission LEVEL. But, I’m not sure that it has gone away. What was occurring while it was present is, the DELL wall paper has become damage. Only 20% of it is showing on the left side. Page numbers have been corrupted on printout via the web. It shows page numbers like page 2 as 22, page 3 as 23, page 4 as 24, etc. System Standy Failed Msg comes up when in standby for very long, so that seems to not be working properly. End Program connection Tray — because the program is not responding. Back-up Recovery has been locked someway. I was not familiar with it and when I attempted to learn about it, prevpous file were gone and it wouldn’t let me start a process. Another oddity is when logging off a Pop-up box appears sometimes, with a big red circle and black X, maybe showing for 5 or 10 mili seconds, then disappears. After many attempts to record its message, it says in part: Instruction M (emory?) could not be read…Click okay to terminate Program. OK Another one had numbers: Approximately as follows: 0X69532997 … 0000000000001. Why bother showing it if it isn’t that important? Pray tell why not let it be collected in a file and be able to print it out so people can make some sense out of it? This last problem is probably something MS should fix, but it is a forever pain when trying to deal with all of these other problems.

I am 71 years old and find value in what a computer can do. But like FIRE, it is a “Wonderful SERVANT and a TERRIBLE MASTER”. I PROBABLY DON’T HAVE THAT MANY MORE YEARS TO FIGHT THESE BATTLES and I keep wondering if it is all worth it. Mixing up a nice loose batch of concrete and pouring it through a hole in the top to creat a DYING MONUMENT to the dear thing seem to be a tempting ONE TIME SOLUTION to all of these problems. What a shame to leave all these headaches to the following generations — a NEVER ENDING CESSPOOL of CORRUPT DATA. I KEEP WONDERING “SHOULD I CONTINUE DOING THIS STUPID STUFF”? IS IT REALLY WORTH IT? I know that I know how to live life WITHOUT a computer. It would be nice if it worked DEPENDABILY continually.

Anyway, sorry to take up so much time and space writing this. I don’t even know for sure what forum or where this will go, but if there is hope and access to this material I would like to continue to seek a few more solutions. Thank you.

POP, wearing TRAINING WHEELS riding off into the Wild Blue Yonder.

STUMBLED!

Another awesome post, I have learned so much from this blog.

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I tried to fix the broken link by typing assoc.exe=exefile in the command window, but got the message that windows could not find it…where do i go from here?
please help meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

wonderfull idea.
really helpfull

When i tryed to type it it came up with a error message
says Acces denied
pleas what i do?!?!?!

are there any known fixes for windows 7 with same problem? I tried some of the fixes for XP did not work. Thank you for your help and time with this.

Thanks a lot… it worked for me…

Hi Raymond,

I need a product key for Norton Antivirus 2010

Hi ray.. it seems most of guys got d issue fixed but not for me.. got vista ultimate 32 bit.. let me explain what happened exactly ..my brother says he downloaded some thing called zwinky from face book and that started this reg corruption or don knw wat..

I am trying to fix this problem but sitting duck… i followed the exact same step as u instructed above but this command prompt is not comin up it giving the same message like i try to open other exe’s… so please help me here to get that command prompt on…

thank u
regards
Raj

This unfortunately didn’t fix my problem (Windows 7 x64 Ultimate). Icons are blank and all .exe’s ask for a program to run with… idk what to do, did this accidentally. Microsoft really sucked with this issue…

btw about launching .exe’s under such circumstances. Make a file with *.bat extension (like cmd.bat), open it in notepad or so, type in “start cmd.exe” or “start taskmgr.exe” (with no quotes), save and run. It will open command console or task manager respectively.

this didn’t work for me D: says “access denied. error occurred while processing .exe”

hi, i have the virus lnk but in my cellphone and usb.. what will i do??

Once you fix the exe. can you just restore the computer before exe. And lnk. Thing happen beacuse its faster and then just Download a program that take your virus away can you email me to notown559er@yahoo.com and tell me pls or you have to this

After working over 14 hours trying to figure out how to get this .LNK problem I had no luck. Now with this info I have the regedit.exe working. Thank you so much!! Now I am trying to fix things in the registry. This has always been no mans land for me but I will try. I did find a Gynormous number of files in CLSID with many digits and afpha characters following next to the file folder. I assume they must all be removed.

thx a lot you very helpful

why, oh why sir is my computer making me crazy? Or could it just be my sister who constantly spies on my computer. Maybe both!

I have windows 7 and need some advice on how to be certain my computer is not being hacked into by her. She just likes to make fun of me and then goes and uses my information to get the guys I’m supposed to have. If I go into DOS, is there a way to tell if I am sharing my computer information with her? We have cable modem, and use a wireless router. It is passkey protected and all, but I still get this feeling…
Are there any windows files that I can open to see?

Thank you!! Katie

you need to run this command as a administrator,else you get a access denied error

you can create a command prompt and run this command

open notepad-type ‘cmd’ save as .bat or .com run it

i got a PC which had all executable associations(exe,reg,scr,pif,com,bat) broken!!!!!
i had to format the PC !!!!

This is a great tip; thank you!

Thank you so much for the tips to restore my files.  You are the best.

Jeraboah