[axeman666]

Hi, my operating system has been acting very strangely the past few days. It seems all of my security measures have been hacked or blocked.

Spybot S&D: Appears in system tray, but the program itself won't open.
Nero Express: Won't detect any CD/DVD drives(and I have two)
System Restoration: I can open it, choose a restoration date, and click next...but at the last page clicking next doesn't do anything. Sometimes it does work, but as the restauration is done and the OS reboots, I get an error message saying the computer could not be restored to the chosen date.
ActiveX: I don't know what's going on with this, but as I tried bitdefender.com's free online scan and such, it can't find the version of activex it needs to operate.

Any security program gets an error message while trying to load definition updates.

...and there may be more issues I am forgetting / haven't yet noticed.

Quite a frustrating situation indeed. Can someone please help?
-Max

[frankjohn]

Have you run a virus scan?Download malwarebytes-antimalware& run a scan.Have you gone into safe mode and try a system restore?

[axeman666]

Yes, I forgot to mention that; I booted in safe mode and restoration acted in the same manner... Spybot inaccessible also. I am downloading malware-bytes anti malware right now. I have to bring up that I can't acces the malwarebytes website itself, but had to download directly from CNET.

[axeman666]

Malwarebytes anti-malware is installed, but the program won't open from desktop nor from the start menu

[frankjohn]

Try from start>run>type in chkdsk /r - there is a space between k&/r

[axeman666]

Running processes:
msnmsgr.exe
iexplore.exe
iexplore.exe
iexplore.exe
wmpnetwk.exe
wscntfy.exe
alg.exe
WTSrv.exe
explorer.exe
spoolsv.exe
hpqtra08.exe
taskmgr.exe
wmpnscfg.exe
svchost.exe
TeaTimer.exe
svchost.exe
svchost.exe
svchost.exe
svchost.exe
justched.exe
svchost.exe
Isass.exe
services.exe
winlogon.exe
csrss.exe
smss.exe
wlcomm.exe
qttask.exe
jqs.exe
realsched.exe
svchost.exe
AdskScSrv.exe
svchost.exe
System
Processus inactif du système
(Yeah, I'm on the french version of Windows XP)

[axeman666]

chkdsk.exe result:

Le type du système de fichiers est NTFS.
Impossible de verrouiller le lecteur en cours.

CHKDSK ne peut pas s'exécuter parce que le volume est utilisé
par un autre processus. Voulez-vous que ce volume soit
vérifié au prochain redémarrage du système? <O/N>

Brief translation: CHKDSK can't load because the drive is used by another process. Do you want this drive to be verified on next startup?

[Old Rich]

Click yes and reboot

[axeman666]

Reboot with some scan saying something like The file system type is RAW (went too fast for me to read) and Spybot detected the deletion of a registry entry linked to malwarebytes.

[Old Rich]

Time to let the big kids look over your system . . go here for instructions:

http://forums.techguy.org/malware-re...st-before.html

[frankjohn]

Using your XP disc you can do a R [repair] you must read the inst. carefully.from the disc

[axeman666]

XP disc only lets me do a new install and I get an error message saying my windows is more recent than the one on the disc (because of SP2 I guess?) Nowhere I can actually enter the R command.

[frankjohn]

go to my computer>right click on c> left click properties> tools> check now>auto fix [check]>reboot

[axeman666]

Ok I did that, and it stop immediatly with the message: Windows could not finish scanning the drive.

[axeman666]

Yikes, even defrag won't start at all...