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Multiple infections

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Lets try this

Please download SystemLook from one of the links below and save it to your Desktop.
Download Mirror #1
Download Mirror #2

  • Double-click SystemLook.exe to run it.
  • Copy the content of the following codebox into the main textfield:
    :filefind
    taskmgr.exe
  • Click the Look button to start the scan.
  • When finished, a notepad window will open with the results of the scan. Please post this log in your next reply.
Note: The log can also be found on your Desktop entitled SystemLook.txt
I guess that will work if that's all we can get, but lets keep trying

Lets try this

Please download SystemLook from one of the links below and save it to your Desktop.
Download Mirror #1
Download Mirror #2

  • Double-click SystemLook.exe to run it.
  • Copy the content of the following codebox into the main textfield:
    :filefind
    taskmgr.exe
  • Click the Look button to start the scan.
  • When finished, a notepad window will open with the results of the scan. Please post this log in your next reply.
Note: The log can also be found on your Desktop entitled SystemLook.txt
SystemLook v1.0 by jpshortstuff (11.01.10) Log created at 04:51 on 10/07/2010 by Jonas (Administrator - Elevation successful) ========== filefind ========== Searching for "taskmgr.exe" C:\WINDOWS\$NtServicePackUninstall$\taskmgr.exe —–c 137728 bytes [12:59 28/11/2009] [08:34 04/08/2004] 2EA0A79051811058436E81D9BB37CD30 C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386\taskmgr.exe —— 137728 bytes [08:34 04/08/2004] [16:05 14/04/2008] D8C4F2FE2B9D1FA51A0B00F36BD82313 C:\WINDOWS\system32\taskmgr.exe –a— 137728 bytes [12:00 24/04/2003] [16:05 14/04/2008] D8C4F2FE2B9D1FA51A0B00F36BD82313 -=End Of File=-
Do you have your windows OS CD?

If so we can try this:

You can use windows sfc (system file checker) You'd need your XP CD to make this work.
Click Start> Run> type sfc /scannow Note the space.
(Note that there is a space between sfc and /scannow)
We can try this"


Open Notepad and copy/paste the entire contents of the quotebox below into Notepad:

@echo off
copy C:\WINDOWS\$NtServicePackUninstall$\taskmgr.exe c:\taskmgr.exe
copy c:\taskmgr.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\taskmgr.exe
quit


Save this Notepad file as replace.bat and choose to Save as type: - All Files then close the Notepad file.
It should look like this: [external image: Posted Image]

Double-click on replace.bat to run it. A DOS window will open and close again, this is normal. Please delete the file afterwards.

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