Safe Mode runs but not Normal or Selective Mode: Had Trojan Virus

Hi,
I am running a Pentium with Northbridge chips (MSI PCB), 0.5 gig RAM, 30
ggabyte HD, NVIDIA. Win 2000 XP.
I got a trojan virus - - some version of Trojan Downloader - and I ran TDS3
and TrojanHunter. It appears that the virus is gone but I don't believe
that just yet.

Anyway, I start in the normal bootmode. The internet is not there and the
machine runs S-L-O-W. I boot in safe mode with Internet and the machine is
at it's normal speed. It has internet. I assume that the reason my
connection is missing is due to the slow running of the machine.

Ok, fine. I only need to boot in diagnostic while enabling the services to
find the file that is bad. The problem is that I have done this and can't
seem to find the bad service or file.

Oh, it would not surprise me to learn that my virus is still in residence.

My virus scanner is not working, and I can't reinstall it until the net and
my email are working.

I would appreciate some pointers on this problem. Yes, it is a real pain in
the butt.

John
P.S. Please reply to group. My email is not working in any mode.

 

Follow up:
I boot in safe mode and run msconfig. I later the selective startup so
that it thinks that I have actually changed something. I haven't. All
services are running. I then exit and restart without turing the machine
off. My PC works fine then. I do get the error during the boot:
Invalid Boot.ini
Booting from C:\Windows\

Any ideas? I did get my regular AVG virus checker to run and it found
another virus. And yes I have the restor point feature turned off.
Thanks,
John

 

After inserting the WinXP CD, you'd want to access the Recovery Console.
Once there, at the C:\Windows prompt, type in(without quotation marks),
"bootcfg /rebuild." I can't remember the questions that then near the
bottom but the answers are Y(for yes), then "Microsoft XP Home Edition",
then "fastdetect"(no quotes again), then type in exit.

 

More follow up:
Mark,
Thank you for the tip. It worked, and I learned something.

Still, I'm having problems with Internet Explorer. If I start it from the
desktop icon or the start menu, it uses up the CPU time and does nothing.
No window appears. Any ideas on why this is so? Note that it appears to
work correctly if I boot with safemode and networking.
Thanks,
John

 

More follow up:
Mark,
Thank you for the tip. It worked, and I learned something.

Still, I'm having problems with Internet Explorer. If I start it from the
desktop icon or the start menu, it uses up the CPU time and does nothing.
No window appears. Any ideas on why this is so? Note that it appears to
work correctly if I boot with safemode and networking.
Thanks,
John

 

Run Pest Patrol. Make sure you get the updates after you install
it...before you run it the first time.

It sounds like you still have spyware/trojan on your machine.


Have a nice one...

Trent

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