System restore & User Accounts blank pages

Hello I was fixing this friend's computer(read delete viruses with mbam/hijackthis) and seemed to get rid of everything. However now I noticed some windows problems. When I go to user accounts it shows a blank page, when I open system restore nothing happens, when I try to open it again then a blank page shows up. Same for Services, it's blank blank blank. I seriously can't go through the trouble of reinstalling windows, would be great if anyone encountered / knows how to fix this. P.S. The machine's XP. Also one more weird/unexplainable to me thing that happened, the hosts file. I went to windows/system32/drivers/etc and found 2 hosts files. They were both named hosts.How is this possible? One was the normal hosts file, the other one was 200KB hidden hosts file. Opened it and it seemed blank BUT there was a small scroll bar. I scrolled and didn't seem to find anything.In the mean time I was scanning with Hijackthis/rsit and it found lines in the hosts file "127.0.0.1 facebook.com 127.0.0.1 en-us.facebook.com etc etc". I know what this does but could/why would a virus really do this? Then I searched the hosts file and it found the lines right in the middle of the file LOL… it's either the virus or maybe friend's brother/father blocked facebook for some reason.

Hiya Uchkur,

Sorry to hear about your problems you are having. Not sure if this may be the case but it's worth a shot to try.

Go here http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-remo…-windows-repair and download unhide.exe and see if this may fix your problems, sometime removing Malware the dword values will get changed. Post back here to let us know the results to see if this taken care of it or to look into something else.

May you have a Blessed Day,

Jimbo1

Hello

I was fixing this friend's computer(read delete viruses with mbam/hijackthis) and seemed to get rid of everything. However now I noticed some windows problems. When I go to user accounts it shows a blank page, when I open system restore nothing happens, when I try to open it again then a blank page shows up. Same for Services, it's blank blank blank. I seriously can't go through the trouble of reinstalling windows, would be great if anyone encountered / knows how to fix this.

Excuse me for stepping in here Jimmy, but the link you proved for the above post is a Remove / uninstall guide for the malware rogue "Windows Repair ".

Was that the intended link?

Cheers,
Lee

nvm, fixed it with this
http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/topic/19629…other-problems/

god bless that guy

Glad you got it fixed

Hello

I was fixing this friend's computer(read delete viruses with mbam/hijackthis) and seemed to get rid of everything. However now I noticed some windows problems. When I go to user accounts it shows a blank page, when I open system restore nothing happens, when I try to open it again then a blank page shows up. Same for Services, it's blank blank blank. I seriously can't go through the trouble of reinstalling windows, would be great if anyone encountered / knows how to fix this.

Excuse me for stepping in here Jimmy, but the link you proved for the above post is a Remove / uninstall guide for the malware rogue "Windows Repair ".

Was that the intended link?

Cheers,
Lee

If you would look and read futher down, their are a few links to download, exe unhide is down a little #17, this btw was from Catbyte, Lee.

Cheers