gracesaved
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Well, I never thought I'd be posting here for help. Been a long time since I've been here, and things have sure changed. I posted this here, but it may well end up in the HJT log section…
Today (from very early this morning) I've run into some problems and I can't figure them out.
Running Win2000Pro SP4; IE 6 (current updates); 1 gb Ram (not sure what else you need to know at the moment)
When I started up today it seemed rather slugglish and some of the startups seemed to hang for a while. When I checked the process list explorer was using about 85% of the memory.
I ran HJT and checked the logs…didn't find anything much I didn't recognize from previous logs. Had HJT run a startup report…still nothing unusual.
Hit a couple of places I check regularly on the net and downloaded an image from a forum I frequent to help someone with a PS fix. Opened CS2 (slow going that was) and then tried to open the image - but it got hung up (this was small low res .jpg, which shouldn't be a problem). Finally got all that closed and ran a scan on the .jpg file - nothing.
Last night before I shut down I installed a new JRE runtime update (update 10) which I didn't check first (should never do that, I know), so I went (with a lot of lag time and hanging) to the control panel and uninstalled it. Then rebooted.
Still hanging.
Uninstalled the old AVG antivirus (which it's been prompting me to do for a couple of weeks now) and installed the new version. While I was at it, I uninstalled Agnitum Outpost (free edition), just incase (had a previous issue with this when I installed cyberhawk which someone recommended to me). Rebooted. Updated AVG and ran a full scan.
Updated and ran Spybot S&D; and A2 - found a few minor pains (a couple of malware traces and a few tracking cookies; some 'missing/shared dlls for cyberhawk - all of which I fixed with spybot), but nothing that would account for this. Ran spybot again, this time just checking the system internals and start up scan and found something there (in the startup scan) I've never seen before:
Located: System.ini, crypt32chain
command: crypt32.dll
file: crypt32.dll
Located: System.ini, cryptnet
command: cryptnet.dll
file: cryptnet.dll
Located: System.ini, cscdll
command: cscdll.dll
file: cscdll.dll
Located: System.ini, PixVue
command: C:\Program Files\PixVue.Com\PixVue\bin\WinLogon.DLL
file: C:\Program Files\PixVue.Com\PixVue\bin\WinLogon.DLL
size: 45056
MD5: f2b364cb8c26038b60e337f662b9be05
Located: System.ini, sclgntfy
command: sclgntfy.dll
file: sclgntfy.dll
Located: System.ini, SensLogn
command: WlNotify.dll
file: WlNotify.dll
Located: System.ini, wzcnotif
command: wzcdlg.dll
file: wzcdlg.dll
Previous Spybot startup scans have never shown these items (though I recognize the Pixvue one), and I didn't notice them showing in HJT startup lists either. These items have a checkmark next to them, so they aren't disabled. I don't understand why (since these are supposed to be necessary dlls for the windows systems) these suddenly show up in this manner - I know they were part of the system, though these are also highlighted on the list (and the info says if they are highlighted they have changed since the last scan). So, I went into Spybot recovery and restored the most recent fixes. Still nothing.
I am at a loss - frustrated and tearing my hair out now. I'm a photographer and I've got to be able to use CS2 - it's fully registered and activated - storebought copy in a box and I've been using it for a while with no problems like this.
Help would be much appreciated.
