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Infection messages?
XP Pro SP3
During the past few weeks, immediately after the initial Windows screen with the blue bar running left right, and before the logon screen, I get a blue screen with white messages. There are dozens of them, all identical, which say something like: Infection: docs and settings my name cookies/index.dat does not exist and cannot be removed. (Pause is inoperative and the normal logon screen appears immediately after.) If I reboot at the logon screen instead of logging on, they have all disappeared. CHKDSK on system disk shows a healthy disk. I have Kaspersky 9 and have run MBAM SAS Asquared etc., nothing found. What is causing these? (There's no anti-virus in my BIOS, BTW.) -- Robin (BrE) Herts, England |
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Robin
They could be ophaned start up items. Perhaps an infection only partly removed. To identify what loads when you boot use Autoruns (freeware) from Microsoft. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys.../Autoruns.mspx With Autoruns you can uncheck an item, which disables it from starting,or you can right click an item and then delete it. If you uncheck you can recheck to re-enable the item. It is a much safer approach than editing the Registry and better than using msconfig.. Another useful feature of the programme is that you can right click an item and select Search Online to get information about the item selected. When booting an automatic virus scan can impact significantly on performance. The extent varies according to the anti-virus software, the availability of RAM and the CPU capacity. Is your system error free? Have a look in the System and Application logs in Event Viewer for Errors and Warnings and post copies here. Don't post any more than 48 hours ago. You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer. When researching the meaning of the error, information regarding Event ID, Source and Description are important. A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a button resembling two pages. Click the button and close Event Viewer.Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from Event Viewer. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Robin Bignall wrote: XP Pro SP3 During the past few weeks, immediately after the initial Windows screen with the blue bar running left right, and before the logon screen, I get a blue screen with white messages. There are dozens of them, all identical, which say something like: Infection: docs and settings my name cookies/index.dat does not exist and cannot be removed. (Pause is inoperative and the normal logon screen appears immediately after.) If I reboot at the logon screen instead of logging on, they have all disappeared. CHKDSK on system disk shows a healthy disk. I have Kaspersky 9 and have run MBAM SAS Asquared etc., nothing found. What is causing these? (There's no anti-virus in my BIOS, BTW.) |
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Robin Bignall wrote:
XP Pro SP3 During the past few weeks, immediately after the initial Windows screen with the blue bar running left right, and before the logon screen, I get a blue screen with white messages. There are dozens of them, all identical, which say something like: Infection: docs and settings my name cookies/index.dat does not exist and cannot be removed. (Pause is inoperative and the normal logon screen appears immediately after.) It is very important that you post back with the exact, complete message! It's hard to tell at this moment, but it's possible you have a variation of what is described he http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/viru...irus-1-removal Please post back with the complete message. |
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On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:36:50 -0500, "Daave" wrote:
Robin Bignall wrote: XP Pro SP3 During the past few weeks, immediately after the initial Windows screen with the blue bar running left right, and before the logon screen, I get a blue screen with white messages. There are dozens of them, all identical, which say something like: Infection: docs and settings my name cookies/index.dat does not exist and cannot be removed. (Pause is inoperative and the normal logon screen appears immediately after.) It is very important that you post back with the exact, complete message! It's hard to tell at this moment, but it's possible you have a variation of what is described he http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/viru...irus-1-removal Please post back with the complete message. Difficult. Pause/break stops the screen for a second and then it goes straight to the logon. I just rebooted and all those messages have vanished. None of the virus/malware programs finds anything. I'll post again if those messages reappear. There's nothing in the event log that looks suspicious. -- Robin (BrE) Herts, England |
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Robin Bignall wrote:
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:36:50 -0500, "Daave" wrote: Robin Bignall wrote: XP Pro SP3 During the past few weeks, immediately after the initial Windows screen with the blue bar running left right, and before the logon screen, I get a blue screen with white messages. There are dozens of them, all identical, which say something like: Infection: docs and settings my name cookies/index.dat does not exist and cannot be removed. (Pause is inoperative and the normal logon screen appears immediately after.) It is very important that you post back with the exact, complete message! It's hard to tell at this moment, but it's possible you have a variation of what is described he http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/viru...irus-1-removal Please post back with the complete message. Difficult. Pause/break stops the screen for a second and then it goes straight to the logon. I just rebooted and all those messages have vanished. None of the virus/malware programs finds anything. I'll post again if those messages reappear. There's nothing in the event log that looks suspicious. In the menu you get after hitting F8, do you see an option called "Disable automatic restart on system failure"? If so, choose it. Another way to do this: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/tipstr...utorestart.htm This way, you will be able to write down these messages. |
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On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:05:42 -0500, "Daave" wrote:
Robin Bignall wrote: On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:36:50 -0500, "Daave" wrote: Robin Bignall wrote: XP Pro SP3 During the past few weeks, immediately after the initial Windows screen with the blue bar running left right, and before the logon screen, I get a blue screen with white messages. There are dozens of them, all identical, which say something like: Infection: docs and settings my name cookies/index.dat does not exist and cannot be removed. (Pause is inoperative and the normal logon screen appears immediately after.) It is very important that you post back with the exact, complete message! It's hard to tell at this moment, but it's possible you have a variation of what is described he http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/viru...irus-1-removal Please post back with the complete message. Difficult. Pause/break stops the screen for a second and then it goes straight to the logon. I just rebooted and all those messages have vanished. None of the virus/malware programs finds anything. I'll post again if those messages reappear. There's nothing in the event log that looks suspicious. In the menu you get after hitting F8, do you see an option called "Disable automatic restart on system failure"? If so, choose it. Another way to do this: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/tipstr...utorestart.htm This way, you will be able to write down these messages. The message is: infection:documents and settings\robin bignall\cookies\index.dat could not be removed. file is no longer existent. -- Robin (BrE) Herts, England |
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Robin Bignall wrote:
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:05:42 -0500, "Daave" wrote: Robin Bignall wrote: On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:36:50 -0500, "Daave" wrote: Robin Bignall wrote: XP Pro SP3 During the past few weeks, immediately after the initial Windows screen with the blue bar running left right, and before the logon screen, I get a blue screen with white messages. There are dozens of them, all identical, which say something like: Infection: docs and settings my name cookies/index.dat does not exist and cannot be removed. (Pause is inoperative and the normal logon screen appears immediately after.) It is very important that you post back with the exact, complete message! It's hard to tell at this moment, but it's possible you have a variation of what is described he http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/viru...irus-1-removal Please post back with the complete message. Difficult. Pause/break stops the screen for a second and then it goes straight to the logon. I just rebooted and all those messages have vanished. None of the virus/malware programs finds anything. I'll post again if those messages reappear. There's nothing in the event log that looks suspicious. In the menu you get after hitting F8, do you see an option called "Disable automatic restart on system failure"? If so, choose it. Another way to do this: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/tipstr...utorestart.htm This way, you will be able to write down these messages. The message is: infection:documents and settings\robin bignall\cookies\index.dat could not be removed. file is no longer existent. Googling the above didn't turn up many hits, which already points to malware. I did manage to find a very similar message (with "available" replacing "existent") he http://translate.google.com/translat...tent%26hl%3Den Another possibly relevant hit: http://forums.techguy.org/malware-re...lp-please.html I'm 99.9999999999999% sure you have malware. :-( This page should help: http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/...moving_Malware (also cross-posting to microsoft.public.security.virus ) |
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Robin Bignall wrote: On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:05:42 -0500, "Daave" wrote: Robin Bignall wrote: On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:36:50 -0500, "Daave" wrote: Robin Bignall wrote: XP Pro SP3 During the past few weeks, immediately after the initial Windows screen with the blue bar running left right, and before the logon screen, I get a blue screen with white messages. There are dozens of them, all identical, which say something like: Infection: docs and settings my name cookies/index.dat does not exist and cannot be removed. (Pause is inoperative and the normal logon screen appears immediately after.) It is very important that you post back with the exact, complete message! It's hard to tell at this moment, but it's possible you have a variation of what is described he http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/viru...irus-1-removal Please post back with the complete message. Difficult. Pause/break stops the screen for a second and then it goes straight to the logon. I just rebooted and all those messages have vanished. None of the virus/malware programs finds anything. I'll post again if those messages reappear. There's nothing in the event log that looks suspicious. In the menu you get after hitting F8, do you see an option called "Disable automatic restart on system failure"? If so, choose it. Another way to do this: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/tipstr...utorestart.htm This way, you will be able to write down these messages. The message is: infection:documents and settings\robin bignall\cookies\index.dat could not be removed. file is no longer existent. Try posting this in : alt.privacy.spyware There are some very sharp people in there who could probably help you quickly. Just include the exact message, your OS and what you already tried and the whole story. Buffalo |
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Robin Bignall wrote:
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:05:42 -0500, "Daave" wrote: Robin Bignall wrote: On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:36:50 -0500, "Daave" wrote: Robin Bignall wrote: XP Pro SP3 During the past few weeks, immediately after the initial Windows screen with the blue bar running left right, and before the logon screen, I get a blue screen with white messages. There are dozens of them, all identical, which say something like: Infection: docs and settings my name cookies/index.dat does not exist and cannot be removed. (Pause is inoperative and the normal logon screen appears immediately after.) It is very important that you post back with the exact, complete message! It's hard to tell at this moment, but it's possible you have a variation of what is described he http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/viru...irus-1-removal Please post back with the complete message. Difficult. Pause/break stops the screen for a second and then it goes straight to the logon. I just rebooted and all those messages have vanished. None of the virus/malware programs finds anything. I'll post again if those messages reappear. There's nothing in the event log that looks suspicious. In the menu you get after hitting F8, do you see an option called "Disable automatic restart on system failure"? If so, choose it. Another way to do this: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/tipstr...utorestart.htm This way, you will be able to write down these messages. The message is: infection:documents and settings\robin bignall\cookies\index.dat could not be removed. file is no longer existent. This thread is very long.. if you've tried the following, I missed it. A couple of things I would try: - Create a text file using Wordpad and name it "index.dat". Store it in the Documents and Settings\Robin Bignall\Cookies\ folder and restart the machine. - Look in the BIOS for an a/v utility and disable it. -- Joe =o) |
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What is the exact error message as per verbatim that shows up on the Blue screen . We need that for a proper answer -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "Robin Bignall" wrote in message ... XP Pro SP3 During the past few weeks, immediately after the initial Windows screen with the blue bar running left right, and before the logon screen, I get a blue screen with white messages. There are dozens of them, all identical, which say something like: Infection: docs and settings my name cookies/index.dat does not exist and cannot be removed. (Pause is inoperative and the normal logon screen appears immediately after.) If I reboot at the logon screen instead of logging on, they have all disappeared. CHKDSK on system disk shows a healthy disk. I have Kaspersky 9 and have run MBAM SAS Asquared etc., nothing found. What is causing these? (There's no anti-virus in my BIOS, BTW.) -- Robin (BrE) Herts, England |
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