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Shell32.dll
I get a message on start up that says "explorer has caused an error in
SHELL32.DLL" explorer will now close. if I close this message box my taskbar dissapears too, there are no icons showing on my desktop and right clicking does not work to bring up desktop properties also system resource meter is at 100% all the time I hope someone can help me Thanks Allan |
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You may already have a virus/spyware hijack download the Stinger from here and run it to make sure that A-V-disabling viruses are not present on your PC http://vil.mcafeesecurity.com/vil/averttools.asp - update your virus scanner and run a full system scan of all files. Reboot to Safe Mode and run CWShredder - to remove variants of the CoolWebSearch hijacker. http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html Use CWShredder, the removal tool: http://www.intermute.com/products/cwshredder.html (download it without the accompanying rubbish) download AdAware SE Personal Edition from www.lavasoftusa.com, install, update, and run it to remove spyware, adware, and other such nasties from your system. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "archiec" wrote in message ... I get a message on start up that says "explorer has caused an error in SHELL32.DLL" explorer will now close. if I close this message box my taskbar dissapears too, there are no icons showing on my desktop and right clicking does not work to bring up desktop properties also system resource meter is at 100% all the time I hope someone can help me Thanks Allan |
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From: "Noel Paton"
| | You may already have a virus/spyware hijack | | download the Stinger from here and run it to make sure that A-V-disabling | viruses are not present on your PC | http://vil.mcafeesecurity.com/vil/averttools.asp | | - update your virus scanner and run a full system scan of all files. | | Reboot to Safe Mode and run CWShredder - to remove variants of the | CoolWebSearch hijacker. | http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html | | Use CWShredder, the removal tool: | http://www.intermute.com/products/cwshredder.html | (download it without the accompanying rubbish) | | download AdAware SE Personal Edition from www.lavasoftusa.com, install, | update, and run it to remove spyware, adware, and other such nasties from | your system. | | -- | Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) | | Nil Carborundum Illegitemi | http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm | | http://tinyurl.com/6oztj | | Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's | That's funny.... He posted in MS Security/Virus and I thought it to be an OS error and not malware related so I told him to post in an appropriate OS based News Group. And here it was... ;-) OK... I'll put my AV software advice in for good measure... Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL -- http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe It is a self-extracting ZIP file that contains the Kixtart Script Interpreter { http://kixtart.org Kixtart is CareWare } three batch files, five Kixtart scripts, one Link (.LNK) file, a PDF instruction file and two utilities; UNZIP.EXE and WGET.EXE. It will simplify the process of using; Sophos, Trend and McAfee Anti Virus Command Line Scanners to remove viruses, Trojans and various other malware. C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS} This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode. This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor’s web site. The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Exit the menu and Reboot the PC. You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode. When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help file. To use this utility, perform the following... Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS } Choose; Unzip Choose; Close Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS } NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files. * * * Please report back your results * * * -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm |
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any error involving explorer should first be treated as a potential
infection - if that proves negative, then it's worth looking deeper..... Archie - FWIW, the loss of the icons in the System Tray is normal when Explorer crashes in Win9x - but the loss of the desktop icons is not. A reboot should bring both back, but if not, try the following.... Start| Run type SCRANREG /FIX click OK, and reboot on request. (BTW - are you using Norton??) -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "David H. Lipman" wrote in message ... From: "Noel Paton" | | You may already have a virus/spyware hijack | | download the Stinger from here and run it to make sure that A-V-disabling | viruses are not present on your PC | http://vil.mcafeesecurity.com/vil/averttools.asp | | - update your virus scanner and run a full system scan of all files. | | Reboot to Safe Mode and run CWShredder - to remove variants of the | CoolWebSearch hijacker. | http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html | | Use CWShredder, the removal tool: | http://www.intermute.com/products/cwshredder.html | (download it without the accompanying rubbish) | | download AdAware SE Personal Edition from www.lavasoftusa.com, install, | update, and run it to remove spyware, adware, and other such nasties from | your system. | | -- | Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) | | Nil Carborundum Illegitemi | http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm | | http://tinyurl.com/6oztj | | Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's | That's funny.... He posted in MS Security/Virus and I thought it to be an OS error and not malware related so I told him to post in an appropriate OS based News Group. And here it was... ;-) OK... I'll put my AV software advice in for good measure... Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL -- http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe It is a self-extracting ZIP file that contains the Kixtart Script Interpreter { http://kixtart.org Kixtart is CareWare } three batch files, five Kixtart scripts, one Link (.LNK) file, a PDF instruction file and two utilities; UNZIP.EXE and WGET.EXE. It will simplify the process of using; Sophos, Trend and McAfee Anti Virus Command Line Scanners to remove viruses, Trojans and various other malware. C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS} This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode. This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor’s web site. The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Exit the menu and Reboot the PC. You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode. When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help file. To use this utility, perform the following... Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS } Choose; Unzip Choose; Close Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS } NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files. * * * Please report back your results * * * -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm |
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