stephenmadpotato
Enlightened
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- Jun 20, 2007
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Hi all,
The otherday I downloaded a patch for photoshop off a non-adobe website, big mistake. It came with a wonderful trojan that is, with windows running impossible to delete. Internet explorer now has addons running that are clearly spyware, pornography now pops up everytime I change the website I'm on. My first reaction was damn I can get used to this, but now its a pain in the buttocks. Basically, I searched the name of the dll file and found it hidden away in my system32 folder. I tried to delete it, access denied, in use. Closed internet explorer. No go. Closed explorer.exe, deleted it through dos. Nope. I then downloaded Unlocker Assistant and figured out which proccesses it was using and it turns out it was lsass.exe, winlogin.exe and explorer.exe. Using the program I force ended lsass and explorer but when I got to winlogin, as soon as I ended the program my computer restarted. It didn't say logging off etc, it literally black screened and restarted. There would be no time to do a shutdown /a command on a dos prompt like with other programs. I tried making a batch file to do it for me but it is either not fast enough or winlogin.exe HAS to be running in order for windows to function. So now I have concluded I must make a boot disk of some sort so I can delete these files and restore peace back to my computer. Any ideas on what to use for a boot disk?
The otherday I downloaded a patch for photoshop off a non-adobe website, big mistake. It came with a wonderful trojan that is, with windows running impossible to delete. Internet explorer now has addons running that are clearly spyware, pornography now pops up everytime I change the website I'm on. My first reaction was damn I can get used to this, but now its a pain in the buttocks. Basically, I searched the name of the dll file and found it hidden away in my system32 folder. I tried to delete it, access denied, in use. Closed internet explorer. No go. Closed explorer.exe, deleted it through dos. Nope. I then downloaded Unlocker Assistant and figured out which proccesses it was using and it turns out it was lsass.exe, winlogin.exe and explorer.exe. Using the program I force ended lsass and explorer but when I got to winlogin, as soon as I ended the program my computer restarted. It didn't say logging off etc, it literally black screened and restarted. There would be no time to do a shutdown /a command on a dos prompt like with other programs. I tried making a batch file to do it for me but it is either not fast enough or winlogin.exe HAS to be running in order for windows to function. So now I have concluded I must make a boot disk of some sort so I can delete these files and restore peace back to my computer. Any ideas on what to use for a boot disk?