no desktop icons, start button, taskbar or new task tab on task manager

Discussion in 'Malware Help - MG (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by yonajacksonwinston, Nov 17, 2009.

  1. yonajacksonwinston

    yonajacksonwinston Private E-2

    My son downloaded a picture send by his sister of his nephew for a background and ever since then he has no desktop icons, start button, or taskbar. Although the picture is still present on the screen. When I hit Ctrl, Alt, Delete to bring up task manager the new task option is greyed out. I have started it up tapping on the F8 key and selected to restore it to a previously working state and received the Active Desktop Recovery along with an error message: The application or DLL C:\intuser.dll is not a valid windows image and rundll 32.exe bad image. The cursor then becomes and hourglass and freezes the screen. I had to hold the button down for abut 5 seconds to et it to shut down. When I allow it to start up not tapping F8 I receive an error report that says spyware terminator realtime shield has encountered a problem and will shut down. If I click to see the report it says szAppName:Viewpointservice.exe szAppVer: 2.0.0.54 szModName:viewpointservice.exe 2.0.0.54 offset:00002250 I am running Windows xp proffesional. Thank you in advance for any help.
     
  2. Kestrel13!

    Kestrel13! Super Malware Fighter - Major Dilemma Staff Member

    Hi there... are you able to follow thru any of the below working in safe mode?

    Welcome to Major Geeks!

    Please read ALL of this message including the notes before doing anything.

    Pleases follow the instructions in the below link:

    READ & RUN ME FIRST. Malware Removal Guide


    and attach the requested logs when you finish these instructions.
    • **** If something does not run, write down the info to explain to us later but keep on going. ****
    • Do not assume that because one step does not work that they all will not. MGtools will frequently run even when all other tools will not.

    • After completing the READ & RUN ME and attaching your logs, make sure that you tell us what problems still remain ( if any still do )!
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    1. If you run into problems trying to run the READ & RUN ME or any of the scans in normal boot mode, you can run the steps in safe boot mode but make sure you tell us what you did later when you post logs. See the below if you do not know how to boot in safe mode:
    2. If you have problems downloading on the problem PC, download the tools and the manual updates for SUPERAntiSpyware and Malwarebytes ( links are given in the READ & RUN ME) onto another PC and then burn to a CD. Then copy them to the problem PC. You will have to skip getting updates if (and only if) your internet connection does not work. Yes you could use a flash drive too but flash drives are writeable and infections can spread to them.
    3. If you cannot seem to login to an infected user account, try using a different user account (if you have one) in either normal or safe boot mode and running only SUPERAntiSpyware and Malwarebytes while logged into this other user account. Then reboot and see if you can log into the problem user account. If you can then run SUPERAntiSpyware, Malwarebytes, ComboFix and MGtools on the infected account as requested in the instructions.
    4. To avoid additional delay in getting a response, it is strongly advised that after completing the READ & RUN ME you also read this sticky:
    Any additional post is a bump which will add more delay. Once you attach the logs, your thread will be in the work queue and as stated our system works the oldest threads FIRST.
     

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