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Greg In Logon Jail
January 6th 05, 03:35 PM
Several people are being shown advice relating to malware called Blazefind
but I cannot seem to implement this advice.

How my problem began: yesterday morning I was unable to view webpages. I'd
get your typical IE white page of text that you see when you're offline and
try to load a webpage. But chat programs and other internet functions worked
fine. I rebooted and found that after entering my login password I'd see
"loading your settings" then "logging you off" no matter how many times I
tried to login. Same thing would happen as Administrator. Same thing in safe
mode and "Last Known Good Configuration".

I should also note I have a raid array. It is reported as degraded when I
reboot the machine but I'm told this is normal after multiple reboots. I
should also note I ran chkdisk before I found the advice in these forums.

But when I type R and press enter I'm never asked for a password. I'm taken
to a C: prompt. If I try CD Windows, WINNT, or CD system32 I get an error
that the directories don't exist. Therefore I cannot implement any of the
advice given. If I type the dir command I see something pretty bizarre, a
listing of files or directories with some letters and mostly dashes like
"d--h-----" or something like that.

I've tried remote desktop and viewing the computer on the network but am
unable to do so.

I can't recall if I ran Spybot Search and Destroy but may have a couple of
weeks ago before I left for Xmas vacation.

I hope I can get some help here, I've been stuck in this hell for 24 hours
and this computer is filled with valued information. Thank you for reading.

Frank Saunders, MS-MVP
January 6th 05, 06:07 PM
"Greg In Logon Jail" <Greg In Logon >
wrote in message

> Several people are being shown advice relating to malware called
> Blazefind but I cannot seem to implement this advice.
>
> How my problem began: yesterday morning I was unable to view
> webpages. I'd get your typical IE white page of text that you see
> when you're offline and try to load a webpage. But chat programs and
> other internet functions worked fine. I rebooted and found that after
> entering my login password I'd see "loading your settings" then
> "logging you off" no matter how many times I tried to login. Same
> thing would happen as Administrator. Same thing in safe mode and
> "Last Known Good Configuration".
>
> I should also note I have a raid array. It is reported as degraded
> when I reboot the machine but I'm told this is normal after multiple
> reboots. I should also note I ran chkdisk before I found the advice
> in these forums.
>
> But when I type R and press enter I'm never asked for a password. I'm
> taken to a C: prompt. If I try CD Windows, WINNT, or CD system32 I
> get an error that the directories don't exist. Therefore I cannot
> implement any of the advice given. If I type the dir command I see
> something pretty bizarre, a listing of files or directories with some
> letters and mostly dashes like "d--h-----" or something like that.
>
> I've tried remote desktop and viewing the computer on the network but
> am unable to do so.
>
> I can't recall if I ran Spybot Search and Destroy but may have a
> couple of weeks ago before I left for Xmas vacation.
>
> I hope I can get some help here, I've been stuck in this hell for 24
> hours and this computer is filled with valued information. Thank you
> for reading.

Google is your friend:

http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=deskbar&q=Blazefind

RegBlock will remove it (www.regblock.com).

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
Please respond in Newsgroup only. Do not send email
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Protect your PC
http://www.microsoft.com./athome/security/protect/default.aspx

Greg In Logon Jail
January 6th 05, 07:35 PM
how the heck do I perform all those steps (or install regblock) when I can't
get into my computer?


"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP" wrote:

>
> Google is your friend:
>
> http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=deskbar&q=Blazefind
>
> RegBlock will remove it (www.regblock.com).
>
> --
> Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
> Please respond in Newsgroup only. Do not send email
> http://www.fjsmjs.com
> Protect your PC
> http://www.microsoft.com./athome/security/protect/default.aspx
>
>
>

Google