Firewall disabled, IE blank page - Virus, Trojan?

Firewall disabled, IE blank page - Virus, Trojan?

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Firewall disabled, IE blank page - Virus, Trojan? Milo 06-14-2006
Posted by =?Utf-8?B?UGFuZGFfbWFu?= on June 14, 2006, 10:56 am
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"Milo" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> a few days ago I booted my computer and had the following problem:
>
> Taskbar seemed to have been blanked out. Quick launch area disappeared
> and it looked like the language bar had been stretched right over to
> the start button.
>
> Windows Firewall disabled and cannot be restarted.
>
> Launching any program results in no taskbar button, taskbar remains
> blank and can only get to different full-screen windows by alt-tab.
>
> IE doesn't open any pages, remains blank and seems to not be detecting
> my internet connection which is definitely up as I have another
> computer using the same shared conection (modem and router)
>
> Avast Antivirus cannot start in scan mode, stays hanging with 'virus
> scanning engine initialising' message on the console. Background plugin
> scan seems to be running but not picking anything up. Earlier Avast did
> pick up some infections but I managed to quarantine and then delete
> them....
>
> I tried to do system restore to a point about a week old, it helped in
> that now I have programs on the taskbar again and got the quick launch
> back but still having IE problem amongst others.
>
> Does anyone recognise this trojan/virus behaviour? A friend of mine got
> it as well, so maybe it is spreading through an address book exploit of
> some kind. I would really like to get rid of this beast without having
> to role back to my rather old backup (2 months old). Thanks for all of
> your help in advance.
>
>



I suggest you perform the "Check for and eliminate instructions" here:
http://pandaman.my.contact.bg

If they don't help because obviously your Windows is corrupted , you can
easily create back-ups (with current data) and reformat and reinstall


Panda_man
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