Inactive System Check malware

[Broni]

Take a look here: http://forums.techguy.org/windows-xp/298925-solved-file-asms-windows-xp.html

 

[dennisgolfer]

tried going through that but when I get to the part about finding the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\test\controlset1.... I find the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\test with several entries but none of them are ControlSet...

 

[Broni]

Take another look here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com.../thread/1439cb26-8450-41a9-904b-ca4acaab0a01/

Possibly that friend's CD will work better.

 

[dennisgolfer]

ok - just did the steps again, found the controlset and deleted the upper and lower limits. still doesn't register a D: drive. tried doing Shift-F10 to get cmd prompt and doing 'dir x" with various drive letters. never did find cd. rebooting now

 

[dennisgolfer]

hopefully will get the "known good" cd soon, but shouldn't I be able to at least do a "Dir" and see what's on it, even if the speed was wrong?

 

[Broni]

I'm not sure. Let's wait for that other CD.

 

[dennisgolfer]

I'm still stuck trying to finish the XP Repair. I've got (I think) a good SP2 cd, but when it gets to the screen asking for the ASMS folder it won't even attempt to read the "D" drive. If I do the shift-F10 and go to a prompt, "dir d:" brings "The system cannot find the path specified", which is the same msg as if I did "dir m:" or any other drive that doesn't exist. I have a 2nd HDD installed ("E") and if I do "dir e:" it shows a directly listing of it just fine.

I need to get it to recognize the cd drive so that I can continue but I don't know where to turn next.

 

[Broni]

Copy "asms" folder from Windows CD (located in I386 folder) to USB flash drive and see if you can point repair installation to that location.

 

[dennisgolfer]

Broni - I appreciate your help but it came down to nothing being recognized except "C". I wound up taking the "C" drive out and setting it up as a slave on another machine, copied what I needed off of it, and put it back in the original XP machine. After reinstalling it I did a fresh XP install, starting with formatting the drive. Windows is back up and running now I'm in the process of installing service packs. I'd say you can close this thread.

 

[Broni]

Well, sometimes there is the only way.
Thanks for posting back