No Desktop, No Taskbar, Virus's. Help?

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GothicMonkey - Mar 12, 2010 at 05:04 AM
Ambucias Posts 47310 Registration date Monday February 1, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen February 15, 2023 - Mar 12, 2010 at 07:16 AM
Hello,
Yesterday I (stupidly) downloaded a file and run the program inside. Since then, I've been having some major problems.

First thing I noticed was that I could not access any anti virus sites (as mine ran out... before I downloaded this file). It would keep saying the websites where down, which was false, as they worked on my other computer. Finally, I managed to download a free version of AVG.

So I went to delete this file I stupidly downloaded, and guess what. It moved. Disappeared! So I deleted the program this was for (was getting a key-gen/serial for a game... wont do that again) and things just kept getting worse. I ended up having to reboot the computer. That was not the best thing to do... Well I rebooted, and every time I logged on, it would freeze up and not let me do anything.

So I did the logical thing. I went into safe mode. From there I scanned my computer with AVG, it moved a lot... and I mean a lot of Trojans and other viruses to the vault, and deleted a few unknown ones. Afterwards, I restarted to go back in to normal mode, thinking it was alright, and I did good. Wrong again...

Logged on to find. Nothing. No desktop, no task bar. Nothing. So I tried safe mode again, and funny enough, even safe mode had no desktop or task bar. Just as empty as normal mode. I've gone back onto normal mode, and currently can access the internet through Ctrl+Alt+Del, but I wanted to go in to my computer and sort things out. So I searched it up on the task manager (going new task, browse, desktop, my computer), and it tells me "C:\Documents and Settings\Tegan\Desktop\My Computer.Ink Application not found"

Is this related? So what I want to know is, what should I do. I've tried my best with the experience I have, but it's not enough. I can't go Ctrl+Alt+Del and new task Explorer.exe because that doesn't work either. I want to get rid of this virus now. So please help! And I hope I have supplied enough information for someone to help me.
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Ambucias Posts 47310 Registration date Monday February 1, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen February 15, 2023 11,164
Mar 12, 2010 at 07:16 AM
Hello,

Your situation looks as if your are marooned up the stream without an oar!

Here is what I suggest to you which usually is a measure which I only recommend as a last resort but I am pretty sure it will work if you follow these instructions carefully:

1.Download ComboFix to your desktop:

http://www.combofix.org/download.php

2. Disconnect your modem. (Because your antivirus and firewall will be temporarely disabled)
3. Disable all of your antivirus applications. (They may get damaged or be recognised as a virus by ComboFix)
4. Close all other applications.
5. Run ComboFix
6. Reboot your machine.
7. Tell me how you did.

Best regards
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