cant access Desktop or safe mode :(

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by playford, May 13, 2009.

  1. playford

    playford Private E-2

    My PC was juddering playing sound a bit and I thought it had maybe just dropped a driver or something so tried to system restore on monday.

    This seems to have been disabled.

    Next things really started to go crazy, I could enter desktop for a bit but couldnt run any programs tried to run search and destroy and super anti spyware but it took them so long to run that literally would have taken 4-5 days to complete a run, safe mode was no better. This was the case whether connected to net or not.

    now when I try to use either it just goes to user password page which was never enabled and when I try and go through it says Steven_tosh cannot be found (its a toshiba laptop).

    dont really know what to do as cant run any programs without either mode?

    it will open as far as the bios settings screen or the F8 safe mode screen.

    secondly, I have a preinstalled XP operating system, It has the sticker on the bottom of machine with code. but dont have a disk? would anorther XP disc do as long as I enter the proper code?

    help!
     
  2. playford

    playford Private E-2

    I had some weird bits about lsass.exe not being able to run as well.

    Im not sure if that relevant.
     
  3. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    Welcome to Major Geeks!


    Please follow the instructions in the READ & RUN ME FIRST link given futher down and attach the requested logs when you finish these instructions.

    • If you have problems where no tools seem to run, please try following the steps given in the below and then continue on no matter what you find. You only need to try the TDSSserv steps if having problems getting scans in the Read & Run Me First.

    • 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.

    READ & RUN ME FIRST. Malware Removal Guide

    • After completing the READ & RUN ME and attaching your logs, make sure that you tell us what problems still remain ( if any still do )!

    Helpful Notes:



    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, Malwarebytes and Spybot ( 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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