Kevin.zhang
Topic Starter
Hi all,
I was recently infected with something that's wrecked havoc with my computer. My first inkling of something wrong was windows telling me that it suffered a critical error and needed to restart. Windows also said A service I don't remember the name of was prevented from doing something by data execution prevention. I restarted normally. When I try to boot into windows (vista 32 bit home premium), I get as far as the windows logo and progress bar. I see my mouse of a fraction of a second, and then the screen goes black. Typically the loggon screen comes up, but it does not here. I've waited until hard drive activity stopped, but no loggon screen appears.
I then tried to boot into safe mode. If I boot into safe mode or safe mode with networking, it takes about 30 seconds after I log on to blue screen with error 0x000008e. Safe mode with command prompt does not blue screen. From there, I looked at my startup programs and found lrijh8s73jhbfgfd masquerading as winloggn.exe, tezrtsjhfr84iusjfo84f as csrssc.exe, and project1 as svhost.exe. All were in my temp directory. Their presence is why I think I have a virus problem and not a hardware issue. I tried disabling those things and running explorer, but I bluescreen 30 seconds after explorer starts.
There is no hijackthis log because I hadn't had a malware problem on this computer before, and didn't think I needed it. Also, I had no firewall or antivirus installed because I thought I wasn't engaging in any "risky" behaviors and I didn't want active protection to degrade my computer's performance.
two notes about my computer: it is a laptop without a floppy drive, and I've soft-modded the graphics card. The softmod has been stable since I've done it, so at least it is not the primary cause of my problems.
I will post a hijackthis log if anyone can tell me how to obtain one through the commandline.
Much thanks,
Kevin
