Hi Rick

Thanks for responding and researching my situation.

I ran a virus scan under the program from Trend Micro, and it showed
approx. 12 viruses, mostly Trojans, 2 Backdoors, and showed them as "Not
Cleanable".
I went through the registry and followed your directions, and some of the
changes you indicated were not "word for word" on my registry, but I deleted
the ones closest to the list, and I just hope I didn't make things worse.
There was one that couldn't be changed at all.

After this, I tried to restart, and got the same results.

I ran the ever-so-slow Norton Virus Scan (NSW Antivirus is the one I have
been using all along), and it didn't show any hits or viruses.

I tried to do a Restart, crossed my fingers, and hit the go button, and I
still get the "default.scr" , "CriticalUpdate.exe" , and the "usbwin32.exe"

I'm ready to pull my hair out. Is there ANYTHING I can try to get rid of
these glitches?

I'm ready to shoot the darn thing out its misery, or else myself

"Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" wrote:

Hi Amber,

usbwin32.exe

Virus.

registry.pif

Virus

default.scs

Virus

CriticalUpdate.exe

And, low and behold, another virus. Sounds like your antivirus software did
half the job. It removed the infecting files but not the startup entries
that loaded them. Click start/run, type regedit and click ok. Expand the
plus (+) signs to reach these keys, one at a time:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\MSConfig\startupreg

Click on the key, then look in the right pane for a string that loads each
of the files you listed. Click on the string and then delete it. Close the
registry editor when they are all removed and restart the system to see if
the problem is resolved.


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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Amber" wrote in message
...
When I started up the pc this morning, as programs were loading, I
received
ALERTS of systems leading to a total crash.
They read as follows:

usbwin32.exe

registry.pif

default.scr

CriticalUpdate.exe

Is there ANY way to salvage this by using any of the CD-ROMs for the pc to
locate these sites and repairing them without losing EVERYTHING ???
The pc is running and seems functional, but I don't know what to do ...
continue or quit ???
Can anyone help me with this ... what are these and what can I do to
correct
them.
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Thanks for any assistance or suggestions.
Amber