Yes, and sorry for the confusion. It was a neighbor's home machine that would not let me boot into SafeMode. That one is frightening! (I told her that, as her son built it up for her and supposedly maintains it, it would really be up to him to wipe and re-build.)
This machine here, again, the only(!) "symptom" we've found is the inability to run TaskMgr.exe. Tasklist.exe (a CLI) works fine (well, anyway, it appears to work fine). Anyway, like Ben and another or two have said, it's time to wipe this one. Don't know when a very-well-hidden bot is going to show up (but not show up in TaskMgr because that's been whacked). -- RMc Jon Harris <[email protected]> wrote on 09/09/2009 09:27:59 AM: > At 8:46 am today you wrote this. > > "I've checked the other symptoms. All "pass", except for not being > able to run TaskMgr.exe. The CLI app "TaskList.exe" runs fine, as > does the ability to lock the screen, change password, run Windows > Update, turn IE tool bars on-and-off, etc. > I have now booted into Safe Mode (I ran across a root kit that > prevented that recently) and am running a full MBytes scan in Safe Mode. > Again, I am _not_ finding any of the registry settings which have > been reported elswhere. " > > You did? Were you possibly talking about another machine? > > Jon > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:19 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Who said anything about finding a root kit on THIS machine? We are > finding absolutely nothing but losing the ability to run taskmgr.exe. > -- > RMc > > Jon Harris <[email protected]> wrote on 09/09/2009 09:15:40 AM: > > > > I would have thought that when he found a root kit on the machine. > > Once one of those has been found only God will know if you find all > > the rest of the stuff that may have been installed. > > > > > Jon > > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > > It's time to cut your losses and wipe-and-reload the system. > > > > -- Ben > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
