Infection from Dopewars Keygen

Shorty187 · Nov 3, 2008

Hi there. I had downloaded what I thought was the game Dopewars from the p2p program eMule. I knew it was a risk to open the keygen located in the zip file, however I figured my ESET NOD32 would pick it up. It didn't, and a little while after running the Keygen.exe file a bogus looking program window, stating itself as being a black box flight recorder [?] or something along those lines opened up, I closed it immediately and my computer restarted itself soon after.

After windows had loaded up, I noticed the programs I have set to start with windows had not loaded, these being uTorrent, Windows Live Messenger, Peerguardian, and ESET NOD32. When trying to manually start Peerguardian and ESET, i would recieve the error message that they are not a valid win32 application. Windows Messenger simply wouldnt open. I tried to run HiJackThis and recieved the 'invalid win32 application' error. After this i tried to restart in safe mode to run ESET, however while booting it would say it couldn't load SPTD.sys.

I am running Windows XP.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, because I'm not too sure what exactly to try next. Cheers guys.

TimW · Nov 4, 2008

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Shorty187 · Nov 5, 2008

I have since fixed this problem. Consider this case, closed

TimW · Nov 5, 2008

Good to know...safe surfing.

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Infection from Dopewars Keygen

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