Solved: Pictures and Folders Shaded and say empty??

Well guys i got one for you, last week i removed a virus and later I noticed that my pictures folders were showing up shaded and my pics were shaded... when I clicked them they opened fine but the folders said they were empty but were not....very wierd. I am going to try to attach a screenshot for you all,






Any help would be appreciated!!!

sincerely, Lisa




Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 1.0.0.2
OS Version: Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium, Service Pack 2, 32 bit
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor LE-1640, x64 Family 15 Model 127 Stepping 2
Processor Count: 1
RAM: 1790 Mb
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon 2100, 256 Mb
Hard Drives: C: Total - 145094 MB, Free - 87977 MB; D: Total - 145141 MB, Free - 120964 MB;
Motherboard: Acer, RS740DVF
Antivirus: AntiVir Desktop, Updated and Enabled

 

Try the attached. Unzip, right-click the reg file, and choose "Merge".

hiddenfix.zip

 

ummm did that...It still looks the same. Should I restart?

 

Did you get a message asking you to approve the merger?

You may have to at least restart explorer to see an effect.

Make sure that the "Hidden" attribute is not set on any of them.

Have you tried System Restore?

 

Yes I got the security warning and the "windows needs your permission to continue and I continued. I will restart now and come back here, wish me luck

 

Crap.... it didn't work


Any other idea's?

 

Did you also get a warning about merging the reg file with the registry and a message that it had succeeded?

If not, go to Start > Run, and see if regedit works. If it does, use the Import function under the File menu to import that reg file.

How was the virus that you had removed? It is liklely that it is still present. What anti-virus are you using? Is it working properly?

 

I did get a warning about merging the reg file, and it did say it was successful before I restarted. I thought I has previously unhidden all my files and folders...

I looked in my documents too and ALL my pics and some of my folders there are shaded as well. Only some of them are shaded though, but even though the folder is not shaded the pics inside are shaded...wierd. notepad stuff is shaded as well.

here are my specs on my pc, antivirus ect,

Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 1.0.0.2
OS Version: Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium, Service Pack 2, 32 bit
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor LE-1640, x64 Family 15 Model 127 Stepping 2
Processor Count: 1
RAM: 1790 Mb
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon 2100, 256 Mb
Hard Drives: C: Total - 145094 MB, Free - 87977 MB; D: Total - 145141 MB, Free - 120964 MB;
Motherboard: Acer, RS740DVF
Antivirus: AntiVir Desktop, Updated and Enabled

 

Well, it really would be a good idea to make sure tht all is clean before going ahead. There's nothing wrong with Avira, but all of them miss things. Try a scan with the free version of Malwarebytes and see what turns up. If it finds anything at all, go to the Malware forum and read the stickies at the top there and get help making sure that your system is cleaned up. If still infected, the malware may undo anything we fix.

 

I done some scans with spyware terminator, gone ride of what little malware it found. Download Ad-aware yesterday and it found some more stuff and got rid of that too. If you still think I should I will download Malwarebytes too and run that. I will check for your answer in the AM, off to bed now, thanks again for helping me out here, it is SO appreciated.

 

Do I have to download Malware bytes?

 

It would be a good idea. I think it is one of the best. I gave up on Ad-Aware when I ran it after running some others and it consistently didn't find anything, even though the others did.

I really think that you should go to the Malware forum for a cleanup. But let's see what Malwarebytes shows first, if you want. You don't have to turn on the Malwarebytes real-time engine. Just keep it for when you want to do an occasional scan. Only one anti-malware program should be running in the background at a time, anyway, since they can interfere with each other and slow down the machine.

 

Thank you Elvandil, I will download and run it now

 

K, all done. It said no malicious items were detected. Here is the log file:


Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.51.2.1300
www.malwarebytes.org
Database version: 8111
Windows 6.0.6002 Service Pack 2
Internet Explorer 7.0.6002.18005
07/11/2011 9:13:43 PM
mbam-log-2011-11-07 (21-13-43).txt
Scan type: Quick scan
Objects scanned: 159965
Time elapsed: 6 minute(s), 55 second(s)
Memory Processes Infected: 0
Memory Modules Infected: 0
Registry Keys Infected: 0
Registry Values Infected: 0
Registry Data Items Infected: 0
Folders Infected: 0
Files Infected: 0
Memory Processes Infected:
(No malicious items detected)
Memory Modules Infected:
(No malicious items detected)
Registry Keys Infected:
(No malicious items detected)
Registry Values Infected:
(No malicious items detected)
Registry Data Items Infected:
(No malicious items detected)
Folders Infected:
(No malicious items detected)
Files Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

 

should I do more than a quick scan you think?