Repairing dll and registry question.

[sawyerdk9]

Does anyone know of a free program that finds and repairs the Registry and .dll files? The ones I have downloaded are just samples and only do so much.

Also does anyone know of a free Anti-Virus program? I need a pretty good reliable one becuase I think I may possibly have a trojan or something.

[crazytieguy]

Registry repair:
http://www.ccleaner.com/
Antivirus:
http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/

[guru]

TO stop all trojan from sending data from your pc install zonealarm free trial at zonelabs.com . its the best "hit the ground running" firewall.

As far as locating a Trojan on windows I use the free application called Spybot Search & Destroy. Google it , its free from hundreds of download sites.

THose 2 will stop anything that you need to worry about on windows relating to trojans. As far as virus, i would never suggest a free one. Norton is the best hands down, and thats from someone who has used many types for since the internet.

Also for now just to see, open your alt ctrl delete window and see what programs are running. Anything running as "your windows user" thats taking alot of resources (over 5k) could be a bad trojan/traffic. You can list your current applications here and Ill tell you what needs to be closed and removed.

[sawyerdk9]

firefox.exe
hpsysdrv.exe
IEXPLORER.EXE
atiptaxx.exe
atidtct.exe
ATIRW.EXE
kdb.exe
rundll32.exe
ser.exe
dap.exe (download acccelerator)

and then task manager and explorer

Well there is one problem I know of. I don't use internet explorer but it is running and when I'm disconnected from the internet it is always trying to connect. I once had a problem where a certain "ANTI-SPYWARE" program was always trying to download itself even if I was offline. This has the same characteristics.

I also get a rundll error when I dial up.

Do you know of any good trials or free .dll fixers?

Thanks for the help!

[ShadowHawk]

ok the firefox is obvious.
Hpsysdrv.exe tells me you have an hp printer,
ati...exe are your video stuff for your ati card,
dap.exe you told us,
IEXPLORER.exe is internet explorer,
kdb.exe questionable for it is for a KSQL server but has been seen on some standalone systems, I'll check into that.

ser.exe is a red flag, it is a keylogger Stealth Email Redirector, basically spyware and could be triggering rundll32.exe, for that is a normal windows executor (I've seen it pop up a few times on older programs, but it is suppose to shut itself down, which is why i suspect ser.exe is using it.)

post some system users also. Sometimes some virii give themselves access to sytem services. But ser.exe definately needs to be removed.

rundll.exe without the 32 (rundll32.exe) is fishy also. sounds like a virus is imbedded somewhere. I'll look around to see which one(s). are there any other symtoms you been experiencing lately?

Off topic: please refrain from using broad titles. I've renamed it for you this time, but read the rules. We need some idea what the question or prob you have is so if others have experienced same or similar problems, they know where to look.

[sawyerdk9]

Thanks for the help and sorry about the title, my bad.

Well I made a mistake rundll should be rundll32.
So you're saying ser.exe is bad, so should I delete it somehow?

SYSTEM

IEXPLORER.EXE
svchost.exe
OPXPApp.exe
omniServ.exe
lsass.exe
spoolsv.exe
svchost.exe
svchost.exe
ati2evxx.exe
lsass.exe
services.exe
winlogon.exe
csrss.exe
smss.exe
System
System Idle Process

Thost are all the processes with a SYSTEM username.

[Leviathan]

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[sawyerdk9]

I also want to point out that upon downloading of Windows Service Pack 2, the problem seemed to arrise. I'm going to try that thing Guru suggested at zonelabs.com


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[sawyerdk9]

No big deal really.

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