Ok Majorgeeks Steps Are Done, What Next?

G'day, I did all the Majors steps like a good girl!

Problems are
Strange happenings. Startup always gives the list of choices...ie normal or safe mode etc. Also seems like it starts with different configurations. (I dont understand this stuff but am intelligent enough to learn)
Not working or intermittant and no conflicts or error messages, printer, floppy drive and CD Rom drive. Help doesnt work fully, not all the help pages open. Lots of inconsistencies. Stuff works sometimes and not others. (Can this be due to a virus?)
I lost my display settings and I made the mistake of re-installing Windows in Safe mode! It took me ages but I finally fixed the display with ATI. Trouble is I dont fully understand how I fixed it. I just feel that something is really strange with my PC.

Windows 98 4.10.222 A
Upgrade using Select CD /SrcDir=C:\WIN98/IQ?U:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
IE 56.0.2800.1106
GenuineIntel x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 3 Intel MMX (TM) Technology
64 MB RAM 49% system resources free
Windows-managed swap file on drice C (4248MB free)
Available space on drive C: 4248 of 9756MB (FAT32)
Dial-up-connection
I have AVG, Spybot, Ad-Aware

Before I did your steps
PCPitstop
Result
No problems other than need more memory and more internet protection

Panda Active Scan
Result
Virus trj\Downloader.GK

MajorGeeks steps

HouseCall
Result
Virus Joke Flipped
unzipped\badday\Bad_Day.exe

Symantec
Result
Virus Trojan ByteVerify
windows.jpi.cache\jar\1.0\count.jar-55150581-4c72abc5.zip
windows.jpi.cache\jar\1.0\ohh.jar-3965ca49-5085ef8f.zip

In safe mode

McAffee Stinger
Result
WINDOWS\SYSTEM\sci1.dll
W32\SirCam.dat
WINDOWS\SYSTEM\scd.dll
W32\SirCam.dat
DELETED both

Ad-aware
Result
Fixed 25

SpyBot
Result
Fixed 54

CWShredder
Clean

CCleaner
Done


Kill2me
Done

TestCPU
Done

About Buster
Done Twice

Then I repeated

HouseCall
No Infections

Symantec
Found 2 Trojan ByteVerify again

Then

Trojan Scanner
No Infections

HijackThis
Attached
I tried to read this but it wont let me open it....says it needs Netscape to open.......when i locate Netcape for it it still doesnt open so I hope you can open it.....otherwise i will re-do it with my internet explorer shut and save it in word

Many thanks
Carolyn

 

Re: G'day, I did all the Majors steps like a good girl!

Reply to myself with my log

EDIT by chaslang: Please do not post inline HJT logs. And we only need the text version not a .doc version. HJT log changed to an attachment.

 

Re: G'day, I did all the Majors steps like a good girl!

Reply to myself again

I forgot to say that I did install SpyBlaster as well!

Carolyn

 

Re: G'day, I did all the Majors steps like a good girl!

Hi Carolyn,

So, your machine never boots normally?

I am not seeing anything jumping out at me from the log you posted, but I only had time for a quick glance and I don't see so many Windows 98 machines these days.
I am leaving a message for our resident genius, Chaslang, to take a look as I am a bit overextended right now. Hang in there One of us WILL get back to you.

Best
PP

 

I have done all the MajorGeeks steps see below
Problems are
Strange happenings. Startup always gives the list of choices...ie normal or safe mode etc. Also seems like it starts with different configurations. (I dont understand this stuff but am intelligent enough to learn)
Not working or intermittant and no conflicts or error messages, printer, floppy drive and CD Rom drive. Help doesnt work fully, not all the help pages open. Lots of inconsistencies. Stuff works sometimes and not others. Paths to programs are weird….like sometimes the desktop icons wont open but a window opens with a different program saying it cant find program ie I clicked on icon for shortcut to My Documents and window opened tell my it couldn’t find my dial up window, which I hadnt asked for! (Can all this be due to a virus?)
I lost my display settings and I made the mistake of re-installing Windows in Safe mode! It took me ages but I finally fixed the display with ATI. Trouble is I dont fully understand how I fixed it. I just feel that something is really strange with my PC.

Windows 98 4.10.222 A
Upgrade using Select CD /SrcDir=C:\WIN98/IQ?U:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
IE 56.0.2800.1106
GenuineIntel x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 3 Intel MMX (TM) Technology
64 MB RAM 49% system resources free
Windows-managed swap file on drice C (4248MB free)
Available space on drive C: 4248 of 9756MB (FAT32)
Dial-up-connection
I have AVG, Spybot, Ad-Aware

Before I did your steps I did this

PCPitstop
Result
No problems other than need more memory and more internet protection

Panda Active Scan
Result
Virus trj\Downloader.GK

MajorGeeks steps

SpywareBlaster
Installed

HouseCall
Result
Virus Joke Flipped
unzipped\badday\Bad_Day.exe

Symantec
Result
Virus Trojan ByteVerify
windows.jpi.cache\jar\1.0\count.jar-55150581-4c72abc5.zip
windows.jpi.cache\jar\1.0\ohh.jar-3965ca49-5085ef8f.zip

In safe mode

McAffee Stinger
Result
WINDOWS\SYSTEM\sci1.dll
W32\SirCam.dat
WINDOWS\SYSTEM\scd.dll
W32\SirCam.dat
DELETED both

Ad-aware
Result
Fixed 25

SpyBot
Result
Fixed 54

CWShredder
Clean

CCleaner
Done


Kill2me
Done

TestCPU
Done

About Buster
Done Twice

Then I repeated

HouseCall
No Infections

Symantec
Found 2 Trojan ByteVerify again

Then

Trojan Scanner
No Infections

HijackThis
Attached as a word document


Many thanks
Carolyn

 

Hi Carolyn,

Please be patient as there are only 2 of us who volunteer our time in this forum on a regular basis. I will merge your threads together.

Hang in there
PP

 

Ok I did sfc........it said setupx.dll may be corrupted, so I did restore from win 98......i dont have a disk so it did it from my PC.
You asked
Are you using msconfig to do a selective Startup or a boot did you Enable boot to Start Menu? Go here and check the options for you Win98 system.
I dont fully understand this. I am going to start in dos and have a look.


PhilliePhan and Chaslang
Sorry I didnt mean to post twice, I thought that the first one didnt work. I do appreciate any help that you guys are able to give people like me. I am ok with computers but I dont understand a lot of how it works. I do seem to have freed my pc of virus's now. I am running system file checker to see what happens. This is the kind of advice I need cos I dont know about these things.

You are MUCH APPRECIATED

Carolyn

 

You said, "Startup always gives the list of choices...ie normal or safe mode etc" - That is selective startup. You can find the settings via Start > Run > type msconfig

No biggie There are really only a few of us who respond regularly in this forum, so patience is needed. I know this can be difficult when you have a frustrating problem like this.

I am not familiar with Windows 98 machines & wouldn't know the proper questions to ask to help you in a timely manner. Chas is far more knowledgeable than I. So, you are in good hands - We both may learn something

PP

 

PP Thanks for your words.
Chaslang
Ok I have done some investigating today and have come up with some perplexing problems.
I hope that too much info isnt too much!

Tried to run misconfig at start run
Error message said
Cannot find the file misconfig (or one of its components). Make sure the path and the filename are correct and that the required libraries are available

So tried to run sfc again
It ran and told me setupx.dll may be corrupted.
Then it went through the process of restoring it but an illegal operation for sfc came up.

I tried to run sfc several times……and in safe mode as well
Same result

Then I tried to run misconfig again and it worked.
It was not set to start in normal.
It was not set at start in diagnostic.
t was in selective startup

I changed misconfig to Normal.
When it restarted it opened only a black screen with messages that I had
Duplicate devices in system ini files
Vmouse,vcd,int13,vkd
I had to enter after each and then it gave me a blue screen with an error message
Device BUSTHELP not initialising
I ok and then it shut down

It then restarted in safemode
I changed the misconfig back to selective and restarted
(I dont really understand the functions in all the tabs in there)


When it restarted it came up with the display settings all gone and just in 16 colours. The Windows 98 music started and the window came up just like when you first start Windows for the first time.

I said Oh F***k lol

I tried all sorts of stuff to get it to be normal again.

Then I went into DOS
I did scanreg/restore and selected yesterdays date
And thank heavens it worked! Pc came back to working condition

It wont go back into misconfig again now and it wont run sfc properly

So maybe the problem lies with these duplicate device files that it finds when it tries to start in normal config. I couldn’t actually find the file names that it said…here they are again

Duplicate device System ini files

Vmouse, vcd, int13, vkd

 

Chaslang
The continuing saga or challenge?
Thanks for helping

Are you still booting up to the menu to select Safe mode or normal mode?
Yes I am

It's msconfig not misconfig.
Youre right....my typos and nervousness.

I have attached a screen shot of the system config utility so that you can see what is happening. Hope this helps you.

Are you sure the message you got said Device BUSTHELP not initialising ?

Yes. I did a search for the word BUSTHELP in file search and this is what I found in an sfc log
BustHelp.vxd Added 10/13/200
Could it be related to an old virus buster?

 

P.S
Thanks for the link to the reading.
Carolyn

 

Yes that is unchecked and has been the whole time. That is weird isnt it.
Carolyn

 

Ok did that and it worked!
Carolyn

 

Yeah

Printer
CDROM
Floppy Drive

and still wont start in normal config...only selected.

But at least we got rid of the virus

Carolyn lol

 

Ok attached is a screen shot of the Start up tab (notice the checked mark on an invisible item near the top?) and also a look at the hardware profile....note there is no printer there.

I got the cd rom and the floppy working. They were working intermittently but are now working consistently today.

However the printer is still acting like it is working....no error messages.......says it is printing and there is no printer visible in the device hardware profile. I tried deleting all the software for the printer and went to epson and downloaded the software again and installed the hardware. But still no go.

Could the fact that it wont startup in normal (only selective) without telling me that I have the duplicate files and to delete them........is this related to the printer problems?

printer is
Epson stylus color 600

Many thanks for your help so far.
Carolyn

 

Chaslang

I have moved my enquiry over to the Harware section. Thanks for you help, it is really really appreciated as I know you all do this on you own time. If you think of anything just let me know.

Carolyn

 

Chaslang

Yes c:\windows\welcome.exe this is there. I did a search and found it. The whole windows 98 is on my pc not on a disk C:\win98 (as shown in attachment)

see if you can get both your win.ini and system.ini files into a ZIP file and upload them here as an attachment.

Can u tell me how to find these files? win.ini system.ini I cant seem to find them anywhere.
Remember I am a good learner but my knowledge is limited.

and Yes I have done all the updates for windows.
Thanks
Carolyn

 

Ok now this is weird....I cant find win.ini or system.ini files anywhere........I tried to find them before my last post and when u confirmed that I was looking in the right place I looked again. I also did a start find search but all I got was one of those little certificate icons with the yellow on it.
I have attached a file with what it looks like in Windows Explorer.
I am not sure what should be in there maybe you can have a look and see what might be odd.
Regards
Carolyn in Australia quite a different timezone

 

Second attachment
Regards
Carolyn

 

I was reading that win.ini and sys ini are in here as backups.
C:\WINDOWS\SYSBCKUP\rb000.cab
I have taken a screen shot for you. There are those icons i was talking about with the yellow in the other post.
Carolyn

 

I just cant find them in windows. When I open up windows on windows explorer, should they be in a folder named win.ini and sys.ini or ini cos they arent anywhere. I have opened every single folder and I cant find them. I have it set to show all folders
What am I doing wrong?
Carolyn

 

Check out the attached zip and let me know if this is them?
Carolyn

 

These were in the Windows folder. I have no idea what is meant to be in there ?
Carolyn