Computer acting weird.

Ketsu · Mar 24, 2010

I was browsing through a forum I frequently read and noticed a page pop up (dommane controller or something) with a 404 error. I knew something was up and went to my Task Manager to see if I had something running I normally don't see, and I did.

The process was Msplyi4d. Terminated it and went on a search hunt for nasty things. I used HijackThis to analyze what I had, and it popped up with "awuscp". Google didn't help when I tried finding info on it, it even actually asked me if I meant "awtqn". My Anti-Virus (Avast) was not able to detect this (I had to manually delete the .dlls out of system32 as they were easy to spot) and removed all known sources of it that I can find, even out of the registry, but I still have a problem.

I rebooted my computer but it took it an unusual amount of time to load up. On the screen before you login with your information, it takes about it 2-3 minutes for me to be able to log in with my information (Login prompt doesn't show) and I'm able to log in. Now, when I DO log on finally, my start bar is missing. I can't even use the "Search" function when I try to see if there are any more traces of what I had, because the only thing that pops up is the animated dog that shows up.

I AM able to still use my task manager, but I notice this time, most of the programs I usually have running are not. I'm not able to connect to the internet on my computer (I use dial up and I have made a manual connection) because the dialing portion to get on doesn't show up. I also can't preview pictures I have on my computer with the Windows Picture and Fax viewer, but I can with Nero something something (Software came with a new DvD Reader/Writer I bought) It also has the same symptoms when I have my computer in Safe Mode and I'm not able to use the System Restore; It keeps saying it's unavailable at the time and I should reboot my computer.

Has anyone any idea what kind of virus this is? I'm running a Windows XP Media Center SP2. I'm on a different computer right now.

TimW · Mar 25, 2010

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Computer acting weird.

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