Back up Registry

I am trying to rid my son's pc of some extremely resilant adware. It sounds
like I will have to manually remove the files, and I am advised to back up
the registry in Windows 98 before I begin. I click Start, Run and then
"scanregw" but I get the message "Cannot find the file "scanregw" or one of
its components. Make sure the path and filename are correct and that all
required libraries are available. What next?

Much thanks for any suggestions.

Download, unzip, and run Hijack This from one of these locations:
http://computercops.biz/downloads-cat-14.html
http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads31.html
http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads...HijackThis.exe
Unzip to a folder *other than* your Desktop or the Temp folder, double-click
HijackThis.exe, and hit "Scan".

When the scan is finished, the "Scan" button will change into a "Save Log"
button.
Press that, save the log somewhere you can find it (Desktop, My Documents, or
similar).
Most of what it lists will be harmless or even required, so do NOT fix anything yet.

Copy the log files and paste them into a new post at one of these forums:
http://forum.aumha.org/viewforum.php?f=30
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/,
http://castlecops.com/forum67.html
In your post, please state your problem clearly and what you've done so far to fix
it.

The folks there will tell you what to remove.

See the "housekeeping" they ask you to complete before you post your log:
http://aumha.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4075

A tutorial for using Hijack This is located he
http://tomcoyote.com/hjt/
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm


"Barb" wrote in message
...
I am trying to rid my son's pc of some extremely resilant adware. It sounds
like I will have to manually remove the files, and I am advised to back up
the registry in Windows 98 before I begin. I click Start, Run and then
"scanregw" but I get the message "Cannot find the file "scanregw" or one of
its components. Make sure the path and filename are correct and that all
required libraries are available. What next?

Much thanks for any suggestions.

I appreciate the advice and was planning on this type of solution, but part
of the preliminary "housekeeping" I have been advised to do is to back up the
Windows 98 registry and have been unsuccessful, as described in my original
post. Any advice on why I am getting that error message and unable to do
this?

"glee" wrote:

Download, unzip, and run Hijack This from one of these locations:
http://computercops.biz/downloads-cat-14.html
http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads31.html
http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads...HijackThis.exe
Unzip to a folder *other than* your Desktop or the Temp folder, double-click
HijackThis.exe, and hit "Scan".

When the scan is finished, the "Scan" button will change into a "Save Log"
button.
Press that, save the log somewhere you can find it (Desktop, My Documents, or
similar).
Most of what it lists will be harmless or even required, so do NOT fix anything yet.

Copy the log files and paste them into a new post at one of these forums:
http://forum.aumha.org/viewforum.php?f=30
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/,
http://castlecops.com/forum67.html
In your post, please state your problem clearly and what you've done so far to fix
it.

The folks there will tell you what to remove.

See the "housekeeping" they ask you to complete before you post your log:
http://aumha.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4075

A tutorial for using Hijack This is located he
http://tomcoyote.com/hjt/
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm


"Barb" wrote in message
...
I am trying to rid my son's pc of some extremely resilant adware. It sounds
like I will have to manually remove the files, and I am advised to back up
the registry in Windows 98 before I begin. I click Start, Run and then
"scanregw" but I get the message "Cannot find the file "scanregw" or one of
its components. Make sure the path and filename are correct and that all
required libraries are available. What next?

Much thanks for any suggestions.

I always simply run "scanreg" (not "scanregw"), when I want to back up the
registry. It may not be your problem here, but you could try that, and see
if at least THAT works.

Barb wrote:
I appreciate the advice and was planning on this type of solution, but
part
of the preliminary "housekeeping" I have been advised to do is to back up
the
Windows 98 registry and have been unsuccessful, as described in my
original
post. Any advice on why I am getting that error message and unable to do
this?

"glee" wrote:

Download, unzip, and run Hijack This from one of these locations:
http://computercops.biz/downloads-cat-14.html
http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads31.html
http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads...HijackThis.exe
Unzip to a folder *other than* your Desktop or the Temp folder,
double-click
HijackThis.exe, and hit "Scan".

When the scan is finished, the "Scan" button will change into a "Save
Log"
button.
Press that, save the log somewhere you can find it (Desktop, My
Documents,
or similar).
Most of what it lists will be harmless or even required, so do NOT fix
anything yet.

Copy the log files and paste them into a new post at one of these forums:
http://forum.aumha.org/viewforum.php?f=30
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/,
http://castlecops.com/forum67.html
In your post, please state your problem clearly and what you've done so
far
to fix it.

The folks there will tell you what to remove.

See the "housekeeping" they ask you to complete before you post your log:
http://aumha.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4075

A tutorial for using Hijack This is located he
http://tomcoyote.com/hjt/
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm


"Barb" wrote in message
...
I am trying to rid my son's pc of some extremely resilant adware. It
sounds
like I will have to manually remove the files, and I am advised to back
up
the registry in Windows 98 before I begin. I click Start, Run and then
"scanregw" but I get the message "Cannot find the file "scanregw" or one
of
its components. Make sure the path and filename are correct and that
all
required libraries are available. What next?

Much thanks for any suggestions.

"Barb" wrote in message
...

I appreciate the advice and was planning on this type of solution, but
part
of the preliminary "housekeeping" I have been advised to do is to back up
the
Windows 98 registry

When malware is present, it has usually written commands
into the Registry.
1. When REGEDIT functions OK you can back up the
Registry by exporting it to a REG text file.

2. Registry is stored in two files,
c:\windows\system.dat
c:\windows\user.dat
So when REGEDIT has been disabled by malware you
can back up Registry by copying these two files to
other filenames.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

Barb wrote:
I appreciate the advice and was planning on this type of solution,
but part of the preliminary "housekeeping" I have been advised to do
is to back up the Windows 98 registry and have been unsuccessful, as
described in my original post. Any advice on why I am getting that
error message and unable to do this?

Because - apparently - you do not have the program. There are two
scanreg programs...scanreg.exe is run from DOS, scanregw.exe from
Windows.

If you will look in C:\WINDOWS\SYSBCKUP you will see several files named
rbxxx.cab where "xxx" is a number like "001". Those are registry
backups. Just select the one with the date you want and copy it
somewhere.

If you want to restore it, put it back, go to DOS and type scanreg
/restore. You will be presented with 4-5 choices. Pick the one with
the date you want.

Since scanreg /restore gives you a limited number of choices I always
move all rbxxx.cab files other than the one I want to restore somewhere
else before going to DOS, return them when finished.

--
dadiOH
____________________________

dadiOH's dandies v3.06...
....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico

"Don Phillipson" wrote in message
...

2. Registry is stored in two files,

Four.

c:\windows\system.dat
c:\windows\user.dat
So when REGEDIT has been disabled by malware you
can back up Registry by copying these two files to
other filenames.

You also need SYSTEM.INI and WIN.INI

Don Phillipson wrote:
"Barb" wrote in message
...

I appreciate the advice and was planning on this type of solution,
but part of the preliminary "housekeeping" I have been advised to do
is to back up the Windows 98 registry

When malware is present, it has usually written commands
into the Registry.
1. When REGEDIT functions OK you can back up the
Registry by exporting it to a REG text file.

Except that if you want to stick that file back it merges with what is
already there, doesn't replace.
________________

So when REGEDIT has been disabled by malware you
can back up Registry by copying these two files to
other filenames.

As the man said, four.


--
dadiOH
____________________________

dadiOH's dandies v3.06...
....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico

Regedit does not support editing of SYSTEM.INI or WIN.INI, and does not
create backups of these files. If the user is unable to use REGEDIT to do
the backup then an alternative is to create a copy of c:\windows\system.dat
and c:\windows\user.dat. The INI files are not involved.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Hugh Candlin" wrote in message
...

"Don Phillipson" wrote in message
...

2. Registry is stored in two files,

Four.

c:\windows\system.dat
c:\windows\user.dat
So when REGEDIT has been disabled by malware you
can back up Registry by copying these two files to
other filenames.

You also need SYSTEM.INI and WIN.INI

I'm sure I read that "Scanreg" will pass off to "ScanregW", when "START,
Run, Scanreg" is typed. Anyway, I typed "ScanregW" there, & it still did
work.

Perhaps... "START button, Find, F/F",
& click either one of those in the Find window.


--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"Bill in Co." wrote in message
...
| I always simply run "scanreg" (not "scanregw"), when I want to back up
the
| registry. It may not be your problem here, but you could try that,
and see
| if at least THAT works.
|
| Barb wrote:
| I appreciate the advice and was planning on this type of solution,
but
| part
| of the preliminary "housekeeping" I have been advised to do is to
back up
| the
| Windows 98 registry and have been unsuccessful, as described in my
| original
| post. Any advice on why I am getting that error message and unable
to do
| this?
|
| "glee" wrote:
|
| Download, unzip, and run Hijack This from one of these locations:
| http://computercops.biz/downloads-cat-14.html
| http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads31.html
| http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads...HijackThis.exe
| Unzip to a folder *other than* your Desktop or the Temp folder,
| double-click
| HijackThis.exe, and hit "Scan".
|
| When the scan is finished, the "Scan" button will change into a
"Save
| Log"
| button.
| Press that, save the log somewhere you can find it (Desktop, My
| Documents,
| or similar).
| Most of what it lists will be harmless or even required, so do NOT
fix
| anything yet.
|
| Copy the log files and paste them into a new post at one of these
forums:
| http://forum.aumha.org/viewforum.php?f=30
| http://forums.spywareinfo.com/,
| http://castlecops.com/forum67.html
| In your post, please state your problem clearly and what you've
done so
| far
| to fix it.
|
| The folks there will tell you what to remove.
|
| See the "housekeeping" they ask you to complete before you post
your log:
| http://aumha.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4075
|
| A tutorial for using Hijack This is located he
| http://tomcoyote.com/hjt/
| --
| Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
| http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
|
|
| "Barb" wrote in message
| ...
| I am trying to rid my son's pc of some extremely resilant adware.
It
| sounds
| like I will have to manually remove the files, and I am advised to
back
| up
| the registry in Windows 98 before I begin. I click Start, Run and
then
| "scanregw" but I get the message "Cannot find the file "scanregw"
or one
| of
| its components. Make sure the path and filename are correct and
that
| all
| required libraries are available. What next?
|
| Much thanks for any suggestions.
|
|